Please don’t preinstall Wine and PlayOnLinux. For a lot of people it is useless.
If someone want it, the installation is easy.
I disagree. While I do not use Wine or PlayOnLinux either, I appreciate the fact that Netrunner includes some extra software. They can never make everyone happy, so they should just do their thing.
I appreciate too that Netrunner includes some extra software but wine is a particular software. It can allow linux to install windows viruses :
http://askubuntu.com/questions/5031/what-if-i-run-a-virus-trojan-windows-exe-on-ubuntu-with-wine
And it’s not so easy to remove it (“sudo apt-get remove wine” don’t work). So I think this kind of software shouldn’t be installed by default.
so far Snowden did not leak anything about a NSA Wine virus. Seems we’re kinda safe on that front
No need “NSA Wine virus” just a simple Windows virus can be installed…
I would insist to have Wine + PlayOnLinux Preinstalled:
Two reasons:
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If you fear, to become a Windows-Virus, you first have to be curious about “how does i gets acces to my System?!”. After that question answered, you would agree, that Linux-Viruses would run better; wouldn’t you?
( Even Linux-Systems aren’t Virusproof, the comunity is simply very self-confident to make it hard for virus-acceses - what’s runnung on your system has all capabillities of 08/15-malware.) -
The Beginners for Kubuntusystems are very well targeted, a Pro could uninstall it anyway, i he doesn’t want it.
For Example: My friend stuck with Win, because of his games and applications. I’d shown him Kubuntu - it impressed but not convinced him :“There will be the time, I could change…” although he hates Window$ from pure heard. BUT THEN I’D HIM THE NETRUNNER-SPECLIST… He jumped on it liturally, installed Netrunner that hour (no joke!) and din’t even noticed that hir Girl visited us that evening …
Since a Week (it just happened) he converted fully to the Church of Torvals, and probably never wants to look back…
–> The mélange of Kubuntu (I know, Netrunner is better ), Wine, PlayOnLinux AND STEAM (!!) was the superior argument…
You may dissagree, but - let’s be frankly about that - the Distros like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Netrunner (…) are designed in first place to collect new Linuxers. As long as Linux has a too small userbase, there will never be the future system we strive for. That’s why there is so much eyecandy in the Ubuntu-ish systems …
Think about !
One thing about viruses: (If you where so concerned)
The NSA & Co wants to control the Infatructure, not your PC - which system is to hack to achive that?
–> The servers which connects your PC to or with anything.
What system is running on this tin (in 80% cases) ??
–> Linux!
'–> Someone who wants youd money is infecting your PC; someone who wants to control you will 100% for certain infect Linuxsystems …
This way, there is no concern over >No Wndow$, No control< … they have linux-viruses for absolute sure, because they must: Everyone with high security concerns uses Linux, even the Three-Letter-Agencys them selves!
I know this should be its own thread… and we have to do something in those directions…
[ Ok, completly off-topic now. :s ]
Heads up, Guys!
Greetings, Anopheles.