this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
244 points (89.9% liked)
Linux
5501 readers
137 users here now
A community for everything relating to the linux operating system
Also check out [email protected]
Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yes, I am aware. I did not argue that is isn't for testing. I said you didn't need to compile it for Mac or Windows, because it's not expected of you to have a CS degree to install it.
WTF is chmod? Execute what? How can you not see that this is a problem?
It is a problem. The fact Windows will just execute anything is an issue. That's right. On Linux you need to tell your system to execute a file. That's what chmod is for. (I think you may be able to do this with a right-click. I'm not sure. You just need to tell your system that a file is an executable and it's allowed to do so.)
Well now you're just blatantly lying. Windows doesn't execute anything without you asking it to. The difference is that it works when you do.
I think you misunderstood. It will anything whether it should or not. Also, other processes can execute a thing even if it shouldn't. It can be made to execute a payload that shouldn't be run.
I didn't.
It does what it's told, which is the way an OS should work.
And Linux can't? Isn't that the whole thing about Linux and open software is that it can be made to do whatever you want?
It does a lot more than it's told and you know that. Do you think it's not running anything you didn't exicitly tell it to? Did you tell it to install the drivers for your hardware? I doubt it. The job of an OS is to keep your system operating. It handles scheduling and all kinds of stuff. Executing the executable you click on is a small part of it.
Ideally, yes. Whatever you want. Not whatever bad actors want.
Here's a question for you to consider. What is an .exe on Windows? Does that file extension do anything or is it just a string of character tacked on the end that the system assumes is safe to execute? Can it execute other file types? (The answer is the file extension doesn't do anything. The file is data, and any file could be an executable regardless of the extension.)
All different tasks under the umbrella of "install this software". I don't understand the relevance.
So Windows will install malicious software and Linux won't...? Even if you tell it to? No.
Again I don't understand the relevance.