Crucial distinction: this is specifically for enterprise developer workstations under corporate management (requiring Defender for Endpoint / M365 enterprise licenses), not a general release for all Linux users.

I wrote a bit about what this means for the compliance versus privacy tug-of-war over on my site: Microsoft Defender Arrives on Linux Workstations.

Definitely an interesting shift for mixed-stack environments.

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It’s crazy how quickly a policy debate gets compressed into online panic. Between people assuming their phones are about to become expensive bricks and others leaning entirely into the time to buy a dumb phone comments, it’s hard to separate the real threats from the noise.

Looking past the viral posts to see what’s actually being pushed, why the panic overstates things, and why privacy advocates are still right to be uneasy about the push toward OS-level age checks

https://unknownuniverse.uk/privacy-security/smartphone-id-panic/

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Thank you. It’s just me running the site and I hope to have at least one new article a week.

Right mouse click, it was an intermittent issue and never did get to the bottom of it as the only forum posts I could find were from 10 years ago. Yes I know I could of used the keyboard shortcuts but my muscle memory is more mouse orientated than keyboard lol

I get the opposite with any Linux distribution I’ve tried on my HP laptop. Windows, fans never shut up but with Linux just pure silence!

I’m not saying privacy and convenience are the same thing, or that the situation is somehow natural or benign.

I agree that the real issue is power, distribution control, and the way mobile software has been turned into a duopoly.

What I meant was more practical, for ordinary users, the choice often ends up being between an ideal setup and one that still lets them do necessary day-to-day things like banking and navigation.

That doesn’t make the underlying problem any less political, it just means people are forced to make compromises inside a system they didn’t choose.