Microsoft SSH agent persistently stores your unencrypted private keys in the registry. They’re still there unlocked and usable after you reboot.
God, the final comment in that thread makes my blood boil.
2026 is gonna be the year I finally move to Linux. I have huge concerns about many aspects of switching, but they’re being overtaken by concerns about staying with Windows. I don’t even mind if my overall user experience is a bit worse on Linux (I am trying to have reasonable expectations that it won’t be the walk in the park Linux advocates on Lemmy like to claim), I just have much more faith in its security, privacy, customisability and - most importantly - the motivations and intentions of its developers.
If you move to one of the big supported distributions, you’ll be extremely surprised how easy it is.
If you just want things to stay consistent and easy, I can’t recommend Linux mint enough. I installed it on my son’s laptop almost two years ago and he’s never needed my help to fix anything since.
The installation walks you through everything, just like Windows, but it’ll only take about the third of the time. Everything just works and there’s no trash to uninstall or debloat scripts to run when you’re done.
If you do any gaming you might want to run Fedora or bazzite (fedora with training wheels), but if you’re using KDE for the desktop that’s almost as easy and seamless.
Can confirm, Bazzite is ridiculously easy. If you don’t want to dual-boot it’s easier to install than Windows. I have it on my laptop and all my games run better now.
Except Tropico 6. For some reason that made my entire system go crazy. 😄
Bazzite is so easy to set up it’s kind of ridiculous. I ended up jumping to straight Fedora just so I can fiddle with things a little more, but for 99% of users the immutable distro thing is perfectly fine
@Itwasntme223 Retarded trade-based retard, retarding about retarded trade-based retarded society, about how it is retarding…
You doing alright over there, chief? Your profile text reads like somebody who really needs a wellness check.
That profile is almost certainly AI based on the language patterns
AI is more coherent.
I haven’t used a Microsoft browser or operating syatem in almost 25 years.
