You can do that with plenty of network scanning apps, and you shouldn’t be doing that on device anyway. Not sure how Linux would stop that when you could install a bad package, or run apt update on something that has had a supply chain vulnerability.

If you're willing to consider supply chain vulnerabilities when considering whether someone is spying on you, who's to say there's not a supply chain attack against Wireshark that hides the malicious traffic?

For example you could be running a hackintosh.

Aren't hackintoshes virtually dead with the latest release of MacOS?

Soon as they force 11, I’m switching back to a Linux desktop, but honestly I’m not looking forward to it.

I don't know when you last used Linux, but I can virtually guarantee that the new user experience is better than you remember it being. The last time I had a driver issue with anything apart from my graphics card (and that was easily resolved) was roughly ten years ago. As for the new user experience and just getting everything set up without using the terminal, confessedly, I'm an Arch user, so I'm a bit out of touch with the newbie side of the Linux distro world, but from what I've heard, Bazzite makes the transition fairly painless.

[–] mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a pleb, barely literate in computers, just pretty okay at finding things I need on Google and blindly copying commands. Like I'm obviously extremely tech literate by the standards of the wider world solely by virtue of having a home server that runs things I use, but it's still using unraid because I'm an idiot who needs a helpful community space and forum so I can search how to fix problems confident that other idiots have also broken the thing the same way I did and I will find step by step directions on how to unfuck it

All that said, when it came time for my roughly annual reinstall of Windows just to clear house, they threw up an ad for Windows 11 and it pissed me off so bad I googled "gaming Linux", made a bootable USB of Garuda (I like the bird logo and didn't know what "Arch-based" meant except that it would make me a superior human) and within 15 minutes of getting mad I was installing, and it's just worked out of the box since

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

I'm a pleb, barely literate in computers, just pretty okay at finding things I need on Google and blindly copying commands

I think that's enough for most of things, really. I'm supposed to be a power user, but I just do the same: google whenever I need to do something