I own Windows 11 and my computer and preferred OS (Fedora) support TPM and Secure boot. Is it worth the time to configure that stuff to run W11, or should I just continue to run W10 since I don’t do anything but run a couple games?

I have a robust backup, so even a system wide Nuke is a day’s worth of re-installing, worst case.

Honestly, since I boot W10 so rarely, it’ll kinda be nice not to have to update it every time.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    20 hours ago

    SANS did an experiment, some years ago, where they set-up a Windows machine that was a fresh-install, & connected it to the internet, but they had another machine between it & the internet, recording all the actual-packets going to/from it.

    It was trojan’d within a few minutes, from all the automatic attacks, by other trojan’d MS-Windows machines.

    • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      18 hours ago

      Why was it exposed to the internet with all ports open? Even Linux is getting hacked if you’re fucking rawdogging every packet that shows up…

      (yes I know it’s likely from a bunch of BS services only Windows would be dumb enough to enable by default, but the point still stands that any computer that’s exposed to the internet directly needs to be carefully locked down)