Completing a task in Linux is always a small miracle

[Terminal Velocity]

You got it all messed up here. The topic title should be "Completing a task in Windows is always a small miracle" because it is. For instance, if you wanna add another keyboard layout in your own language, you gotta dig deep into the Settings metro menu like an id-iot, there are always at least 3 layouts that you didn't add and you didn't ask to be added, there's always at least one that you're not allowed to remove, one you're not allowed to add just because Microsh*t decided so. By the time you figure it out and manage to add the KB layout you want and remove those that you don't want, you've forgotten what you needed the layout for and you don't feel like doing it anymore.

Whereas with Linux, you just visit "Settings", "Keyboard", add ONLY the layout you want and that's it - a job for 10 to 15 seconds. And there are NEVER any additional layouts you didn't ask for - only those you wanted to add.

Don't get me wrong, there are many things that Linux do better than other OSes. For instance I only feel confident to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux, in Windows those things feel so stupid with all the keyloggers that running in the background. We are just neglected by many developers that's my complaint

 

[rado84]

Don't get me wrong, there are many things that Linux do better than other OSes. For instance I only feel confident to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux, in Windows those things feel so stupid with all the keyloggers that running in the background. We are just neglected by many developers that's my complaint

Another thing that's better to do in Linux with GParted is to make changes on your storage(s) and I mean ANY changes. Cuz I've tried that with the Windows' tool and the result would be comical, if it wasn't a complete tragedy. Once, when I still had a Windows as a secondary boot (not anymore), I decided to make a 500 GB SSD to have a GPT table. So I moved everything I needed from it to the other storages (I did that in Linux cuz Winblows doesn't read XFS filesystem). I used the integrated Winblows' tool Disk Manager to make it GPT, I restored Winblows from the Clonezilla image, it booted up without a problem (the backup in the image was Legacy MBR and I wanted to convert Winblows to EFI). So, after I restored it from the backup, I changed the SSD to be GPT, put the files back on the SSD an decided to make another Winblows backup with Clonezilla. But Clonezilla refused to make the backup and returned an error with an adress where to find the log file with the error. Imagine my surprise when I read something along the line: "Image can not be created because sda1 is GPT and sda2 is MBR". (insert the mother of all facepalms here) The overrated Winblows somehow had made the first partition to be GPT and the other to be MBR. So I ran GParted from a Live ISO, did the things the right way and then Clonezilla didn't object anymore.

After this endeavour I scrubbed Winblows from existence. Nowadays I bring it out of the backup image only for tests and comparisons, like if a game doesn't behave properly with Steam Proton, I run it in Winblows to see if the same thing with the game will happen there as well. If it does, it's a game bug to be reported. If it doesn't, it's a Proton problem and then Winblows disappears again.

 

[Terminal Velocity]

And yes ladies and gentlemen I'm not able to finish the seminar about the renewables with Linux, because Safe Exam Browser do not run in Linux nor in a VM!

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If this is not war against Linux I don't know what is. BTW I don't have compatible Windows machine with camera and mic in order to be examined

 

[MikeRocor]

And yes ladies and gentlemen I'm not able to finish the seminar about the renewables with Linux, because Safe Exam Browser do not run in Linux nor in a VM!

Safe Exam Browser - Download Latest Releases

safeexambrowser.org

If this is not war against Linux I don't know what is. BTW I don't have compatible Windows machine with camera and mic in order to be examined

I feel like I've missed something... what is "safe exam browser" and how does it relate to "renewables with linux"?

 

[MikeWalsh]

@MikeRocor :-

Like you, too, I don't understand the reference to "renewables with Linux". As for the SEB?

It appears to be a proprietary browser, designed to lock itself into 'kiosk mode' before launching into a strictly-controlled 'examination' environment......one specifically built to permit doing one thing, and one thing ONLY; allowing the user to sit an impartial exam - in whatever subject - without any recourse to 'unauthorised' resources. In other words, it won't permit you to cheat!

It's the online equivalent of the way we used to sit exams as kids; strictly monitored & controlled.....and God help you if tried to cheat. A mate of mine tried to do that during his 'O'-level maths exam; a fact which was noted, and acted upon immediately.....he was frog-marched out of the examination room, and up before the deputy headmaster after the end of the school day. Following which he was up in front of the Headmaster himself the following morning; shortly after that, he disappeared (and we didn't see him again). The rumour was he'd been expelled, but nobody could confirm OR deny otherwise.


Mike.

 

[gvisoc]

It's a seminar about renewables. @Terminal Velocity was attending to it using a Linux computer. It's not "renewables with Linux".

Safe Exam Browser is a piece of garbage some organisations use to be able to monitor your computer, environment and yourself while you conduct an online exam from home.

 

[gvisoc]

If this is not war against Linux I don't know what is. BTW I don't have compatible Windows machine with camera and mic in order to be examined

Can you borrow a computer from a library? There may be a chance that if you explain them the case they'll help you --I know people who solved similar cases that way!

 

[Condobloke]

"Completing a task in Linux is always a small miracle""

I would add to that/phrase it somewhat differently...it is a small miracle for those who have been trodden on/frustrated many times by the leader of the pc world, and in someway prevented from achieving that small miracle for themselves in that environment...... only to discover that the miracles can be achieved every day on an ongoing basis

They have eventually seen the light....and are now safe and comfortable in this environment.

Onward & Upward

 

[Terminal Velocity]

I made complaints about the seminar not supporting Linux users and they will discuss the matter tomorrow, I'll let you know

Safe Exam Browser is an open source app with malware features so they can take control of your computer to ensure that you're not cheating in the exam.

Who knows why they don't have a Linux version... perhaps malware doesn't run in Linux... Perhaps is too demanding in privileges to allow a Linux version

 

[MikeRocor]

I made complaints about the seminar not supporting Linux users and they will discuss the matter tomorrow, I'll let you know

Safe Exam Browser is an open source app with malware features so they can take control of your computer to ensure that you're not cheating in the exam.

Who knows why they don't have a Linux version... perhaps malware doesn't run in Linux... Perhaps is too demanding in privileges to allow a Linux version

Dang! It would suck to need a clean second computer on hand just to cheat.

 

[gvisoc]

Who knows why they don't have a Linux version... perhaps malware doesn't run in Linux... Perhaps is too demanding in privileges to allow a Linux version

The reason for this is that such applications rely on inserting drivers in the Kernel Space to sniff memory, network traffic and audio and video streams. Writing windows drivers and Linux modules is double the hard as they are completely different kernels, so the reason is basically market share --there wouldn't be that many students using Linux laptops, statistically speaking, and hence the return of investment from the Linux version wouldn't make it through the business case.

While Microsoft allowed that for a while to grow its market in the anti-cheat space mainly for videogames (but also for this kind of adversarial education approach), it changed its position a few weeks ago https://www.notebookcheck.net/Micro...ld-kill-kernel-level-anti-cheat.888345.0.html

This means that soon, the hurdle of writing kernel drivers/modules will be out of the way for those parasites, simplifying the task of writing stuff like SEB.

We will be able to enjoy malware-based education on Linux! For a fraction of the cost!

 

[Terminal Velocity]

Their answer is that if I don't have a win10 computer I cannot participate in the exam... I believe that the main purpose of the seminar is not the renewables but to test and familiarize people with remote tasks via computer, renewables is just an excuse to put people in to this procedure, and they pay for that...

I will see what I can do with the win10 machine, maybe I will borrow one