Today I did my first advanced spreadsheet on LibreOffice after switching to Linux, and it handled itself pretty well. I had to search for some features on the web at first, but after I got it down, I felt comfortable using it. Also, LibreOffice’s default menu layout is not pretty, but I can find all of the functions with just a click, unlike MS Office’s ribbon menu where I had to click around to find what I was looking for. Sorry for bad English.

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    9 hours ago

    I had a user do that with video editing software… seriously, what could go wrong? Ransomware. Literally ransomware.

    What app was that? I’m guessing the software was not FOSS.

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      6 hours ago

      There was a trend of malware authors making websites to give away free video editors, I think this one appeared as capcut. They patch the binaries or use other techniques and include malicious DLLs.

      Edit: you and I both are fine with people installing FOSS from github, but what happens when they get the name for the repo wrong? What happens when they go to the fake site a malware author spun up, that even has all the files they wanted?

      Security is there for a reason, sorry, I know we can be annoying and add hurdles to important roles, but people get things wrong. We help with that, and bypassing us means you didn’t give us a chance to save you before you messed up (again I assume everyone on lemmy is a sysadmin Linux user so not ‘you’ but a generic user you).

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        2 hours ago

        Wow, I never heard about this malware trend. I guess this kind of crap will only increase with AI’s help…