So Win10 support is ending soon so I did a trial run of Ubuntu to see how it feels. Mostly things ran ok. Little bit of a learning curve with the UI. Large learning curve for LibreOffice. Then I start reading the docs and discover there is no firewall. I look for Linux firewalls and get confused immediately because the apps sound like they are their own Linux distros. And it looks like I would have to learn a lot of command line stuff. On the ok side of things, I did find apps for things I use such as Plex, Private Internet Access (VPN), and my printer loaded up just fine. I'm too old for this shit
Ok I've got the firewall figured out and found the Ubuntu documentation for it. I was confused by the UI documentation. Problem solved.
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange Of course there are numerous UIs to choose from. I used to be a KDE fan.
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange Ubuntu does indeed have a firewall built in (UFW). Unless you need to modify the way it works, you shouldn't need to interface with it at all.
@DLink@posthat.ca So the user documentation is wrong or I didn't understand it. Well the user docs say GNOME doesn't have a firewall so you should get one. I don't know what the f that means. I loaded up the new Ubuntu LTS distro
@DLink@posthat.ca So the user documentation is wrong or I didn't understand it. Well the user docs say GNOME doesn't have a firewall so you should get one. I don't know what the f that means. I loaded up the new Ubuntu LTS distro
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange Gnome is the shell environment that Ubuntu includes. That's your window manager (essentially explorer.exe) and only one piece of the puzzle. Ubuntu is the OS, which is a lot of bundled software. Linux is the kernal, which is shared among all projects that people refer to as Linux.
Gnome wouldn't include a firewall, that would be up to Ubuntu. Gnome probably tells you that because it can be used for any distro, and it would be on the distro or kernal to include a firewall
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange Gnome is the shell environment that Ubuntu includes. That's your window manager (essentially explorer.exe) and only one piece of the puzzle. Ubuntu is the OS, which is a lot of bundled software. Linux is the kernal, which is shared among all projects that people refer to as Linux.
Gnome wouldn't include a firewall, that would be up to Ubuntu. Gnome probably tells you that because it can be used for any distro, and it would be on the distro or kernal to include a firewall
@DLink@posthat.ca Aha, thank you, Gnome was unfamiliar to me. Got it.
@DLink@posthat.ca Aha, thank you, Gnome was unfamiliar to me. Got it.
Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
