[OT] The coolest (literally) desktop machine I've ever had

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 15:01:21 UTC, jkjkx wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 12:37:55 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 19:13:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> I've put Linux Mint on it (which is what they recommend)
>>
>> Friends don't let friends use Linux Mint:
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/
>>
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
>>
>> Not mentioned above: Linux Mint's upgrade policy is "format 
>> and reinstall". Their update policy is also "If it ain't 
>> broke, don't try to fix it". No wonder they have internal 
>> security issues.
>
> The comments on the reddit post mitigate the post itself, for 
> example:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/d5vo9l6
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/d5uk29l

Funny, if you keep reading, you'll see that a DEBIAN DEVELOPER 
confirmed the OP's post.

> The security issue you talk about is probably the fact that 
> their forums have been hacked earlier this year.

No. The downloads were compromised.

> If you see someone being pushed in the back on the stairs and 
> who falls, what do you do ? Do you blame the guy who falls "hey 
> you're even not able to stay up" or the guy who pushes 
> "a****hole, that's not fair"...

Oh, OK. I guess I can then move everyone's forum passwords to 
http://forum.dlang.org/files/passwords.txt. If something bad 
happens because of that, well, it's not my fault, it wasn't me 
doing anything intentionally evil!