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  • IP based blocking is complicated once you are big enough or providing service to users is critical.

    For example, if you are providing some critical service such as health care, you cannot have a situation where a user cannot access health care info without hard proof that they are causing an issue and that you did your best to not block the user.

    Let’s say you have a household of 5 people with 20 devices in the LAN, one can be infected and running some bot, you do not want to block 5 people and 20 devices.

    Another example, double NAT, you could have literally hundreds or even thousands of people behind one IP.







  • MTK@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWindows doesn't "just work"
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    28 days ago

    In my experience, a stable beginner friendly distro such as mint, is 10x closer to “just working” but…

    I do think that the windos DE tends to be more reliable than any linux DE I have tested. The only DE that compares is gnome, which I find very very stable (but I hate it)

    I think that non-technical people are just used to a simple playbook of:

    1. GUI is rarely the issue, so you never need to see the terminal.
    2. If there is an issue, restart
    3. If that didn’t work, ask for help from your local techy

    And for linux step 3 usually doesn’t work because your local techy is probably someone who just knows how to google and paste into cmd.