Many corporations do not take cybersecurity seriously at all. Speaking as someone who works the security at my job.
They only care when shit hits the fan. Thankfully mine is a little better because we saw our competitor get hit and our CEO then started allocating major funds for security. Even then…it still isn’t quite what it should be.
Out of the two, you’re more likely to have the dongle break first. Those cables have a limited life of bending before snapping or the internal wiring coming undone or a failed connection or just cheap hardware. My first dongle I bought about 2 years ago is getting to that point with me carrying it in my backpack.
I still have my IBM ThinkPad running Windows 95 that has all of its ports still working to this day. The screen hinges are the only thing that has broken on it in all this time. Same for many other laptops I’ve had over the years. Even a gaming laptop I had had its plastic housing break along the sides of the ports due to a fall, but no ports were ever damaged or became inoperable in its life.
Linux hasn’t been that way for a few decades now. You can definitely get that “terminal exclusive” experience if you want, but it has been made so much easier in the last 20 years with most distros being as easy to use as Windows with a mouse + keyboard UI experience being the way you can do just about anything. The only times I’ve absolutely needed to use a terminal were for very special circumstances like a specific setting I wanted or back in the day when I needed to update an app, but even that is now taken care of in the UI with various distros using app marketplaces.
The true most complicated part has been the setup, but even that has been made more user friendly in the last 7 years. Though I have yet to see anyone make it as easy as Microsoft does to get a ISO of Windows onto a USB with one application, so I will give Microsoft that as the upper hand. Though this wouldn’t even be an issue if consumers had Linux ready machines in stores like you can for Windows and macOS.
Guarantee, if you put a Windows theme on a Linux distro or just use something like Zorin OS and give it to someone with little to no tech savviness, they will think it is Windows and use it in the same way and may not ever truly notice. And with websites now (past 5-10 years) detecting your OS, even going to websites to download a specific app will sometimes default to the Linux option. Microsoft Windows having an app store is what macOS and Linux have been doing for even longer.
The availability of apps/applications that users are used to using is the second biggest challenge most average users would face, but there are tons of alternatives to choose from in most cases, with some being better (better UI choices, little to no tracking, longer update support) and/or free.
I have never seen any of these things while browsing Steam. I feel like you have to go searching for it if you want to find it and you will find it on any platform if that is your intention.
This report makes it feel like 4chan 2.0 which is a place that would fit their description.
Instead this just feels like a lame attempt from Epic or some other competitor at pulling down Valve since they can’t/don’t want to directly compete fairly.
I’m sure there are some disgusting racists and imagery on Steam, but not to the extent they’re making it out to be or that Valve approves of it. As a matter of fact, if you go check out controversial games like Dustborn or the newest Dragon Age, you’ll see that Valve has actually been suppressing negative reviews, regardless whether they contain offensive content or not.
The auto closing is driving me insane.
I have 3 different computers I use on a daily and each of them encounter this issue multiple times each week. A meeting starts and I have to go start up Teams and wait for it to fully open to join the call. Or I have someone cold call me and I don’t get the call on my computer and won’t even after opening Teams.
They can do a full refresh and release new features to make it look pretty but nothing has been done to address this issue that has been ongoing since day 1 of this “new Teams” refresh.
I believe they will never allow users to delete entire chats like that because it will cause mass panic for users and managers, particularly. You already have users doing dumb shit like deleting files accidentally. And more than that, you’ll have managers getting upset that users may be doing it on purpose like “omg I never saw that message! 😱 “
Deleting your own stuff is easy and okayed because it’s not an easy process and it involves multiple steps.
You should try out Voyager too to add to your list.
I tried both of those but Voyager had a lot of features the other two were missing. Can’t remember specifically what was missing now that I’ve been using this for a few months, but it’s a very similar experience.