Which OS is safer?

[Randy Marsh]

What is a safe computer operating system to use for purchasing with online banking?

[Omega]

That highly depends on how you, the user uses the OS.


There is Windows, the most used desktop computer operating system. It's big, bloated, has an enormous list of unfixed but known vulnerabilities and is the most commonly targeted by those with malicious intent. And it's all proprietary software, so you have no idea how it works or what it actually does. if you type in your banking details Windows tracks that and sends it to Microsoft.


GNU/Linux, or usually just called Linux. The configurations and security of Linux distributions differs highly per distribution. Any popular main-stream Linux distro will already be a massive improvement over Windows or other proprietary operating systems. Fedora would be one of the more secure distros by out-of-the-box since it by default includes SELinux, a program made by the NSA to improve system security by adding another layer of permissions.

Ubuntu is also fine, it by default uses Apparmor which is not as extensive as SELinux but it's better then nothing.


FreeBSD, security though simplicity, openness and obscurity. You have probably used it before without knowing, it's what the Sony Playstation runs. Also Netflix uses it one their servers. It's a highly secure operating system but has quite a high bar of entry.

There are some other desktop aimed BSDs out there, such as NomadBSD. But I don't know too much about those.


Haiku, taking obscurity to the next level. it's a fork of an old operating system called TrueOS.

[Randy Marsh]

引用自 Omega：

That highly depends on how you, the user uses the OS.


There is Windows, the most used desktop computer operating system. It's big, bloated, has an enormous list of unfixed but known vulnerabilities and is the most commonly targeted by those with malicious intent. And it's all proprietary software, so you have no idea how it works or what it actually does. if you type in your banking details Windows tracks that and sends it to Microsoft.


GNU/Linux, or usually just called Linux. The configurations and security of Linux distributions differs highly per distribution. Any popular main-stream Linux distro will already be a massive improvement over Windows or other proprietary operating systems. Fedora would be one of the more secure distros by out-of-the-box since it by default includes SELinux, a program made by the NSA to improve system security by adding another layer of permissions.

Ubuntu is also fine, it by default uses Apparmor which is not as extensive as SELinux but it's better then nothing.


FreeBSD, security though simplicity, openness and obscurity. You have probably used it before without knowing, it's what the Sony Playstation runs. Also Netflix uses it one their servers. It's a highly secure operating system but has quite a high bar of entry.

There are some other desktop aimed BSDs out there, such as NomadBSD. But I don't know too much about those.


Haiku, taking obscurity to the next level. it's a fork of an old operating system called TrueOS.

Interesting, if you were to choose. Which out of these OS’s would you personally pick?

[vadim]

I use Linux precisely because I can be sure that this OS is not spying on me. Of course, each specific proprietary application may contain malicious code, but I can always restrict its access to computer resources.

[Omega]

引用自 76561198055384086：

引用自 Omega：

That highly depends on how you, the user uses the OS.


There is Windows, the most used desktop computer operating system. It's big, bloated, has an enormous list of unfixed but known vulnerabilities and is the most commonly targeted by those with malicious intent. And it's all proprietary software, so you have no idea how it works or what it actually does. if you type in your banking details Windows tracks that and sends it to Microsoft.


GNU/Linux, or usually just called Linux. The configurations and security of Linux distributions differs highly per distribution. Any popular main-stream Linux distro will already be a massive improvement over Windows or other proprietary operating systems. Fedora would be one of the more secure distros by out-of-the-box since it by default includes SELinux, a program made by the NSA to improve system security by adding another layer of permissions.

Ubuntu is also fine, it by default uses Apparmor which is not as extensive as SELinux but it's better then nothing.


FreeBSD, security though simplicity, openness and obscurity. You have probably used it before without knowing, it's what the Sony Playstation runs. Also Netflix uses it one their servers. It's a highly secure operating system but has quite a high bar of entry.

There are some other desktop aimed BSDs out there, such as NomadBSD. But I don't know too much about those.


Haiku, taking obscurity to the next level. it's a fork of an old operating system called TrueOS.

Interesting, if you were to choose. Which out of these OS’s would you personally pick?

It would of course be best if you always were to use a more secure operating system. Unix-like systems such as Linux are very secure by design, the system is build in such a way a normal user can not harm it.

You have choices, you could install Ubuntu. Preferably stand-alone, no dualboot. A dualboot can run in to issues when Windows decides to update it might overwrite the Linux bootloader. When it does this you will have to manually fix it, not exactly an easy task for the average user.

What I personally recommend is using Tails, it's a Linux distro made to securely access the internet from any computer. You put Tails on a flash drive, plug it in to a computer and then boot from the flash drive.

Tails does go to extremes to guard your security, data security and privacy, but a little bit of extra security doesn't hurt.

Using Tails would be the least intrusive way of doing this, you can leave your current computer as-is and run Tails from a flash drive.

https://tails.boum.org/

[Randy Marsh]

引用自 Omega：

引用自 76561198055384086：

Interesting, if you were to choose. Which out of these OS’s would you personally pick?

It would of course be best if you always were to use a more secure operating system. Unix-like systems such as Linux are very secure by design, the system is build in such a way a normal user can not harm it.

You have choices, you could install Ubuntu. Preferably stand-alone, no dualboot. A dualboot can run in to issues when Windows decides to update it might overwrite the Linux bootloader. When it does this you will have to manually fix it, not exactly an easy task for the average user.

What I personally recommend is using Tails, it's a Linux distro made to securely access the internet from any computer. You put Tails on a flash drive, plug it in to a computer and then boot from the flash drive.

Tails does go to extremes to guard your security, data security and privacy, but a little bit of extra security doesn't hurt.

Using Tails would be the least intrusive way of doing this, you can leave your current computer as-is and run Tails from a flash drive.

https://tails.boum.org/

Thank you so much, I appreciate your help!

[A&A]

Well l m using windows 10 and Ubuntu

If you want better security and privacy use Linux

Windows 10 (If you want to run most of programs on your machine) and yes it s possible to stop spywares from microsoft, but meybe Google or Apple aren t spying on us... huh
No logic they are spying from everywhere