Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoI have clipboard history enabled but holy is that an actual security nightmare.
IMO not a good requirement to have.
Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoI have clipboard history enabled but holy is that an actual security nightmare.
IMO not a good requirement to have.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
As always the security is with the user. No clipboard is just unusable.
And we are talking windows here, security was never important apparently until windows 10 anyways.
In fairness X11 was a threat right? That is one of the reasons Wayland broke so much.
As for the clipboard, kde applications can have a setting to say “this is a secret” and you can set to won’t clip. But passwords are so out of favor I am not sure it matters.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
there’s no “no clipboard”, what are you talking about? there’s been a clipboard in any OS since XP that I have used
what? have you heard about 7?
I doubt that’s a setting, it’s just how it works. It’s not like it’s KDE specific behavior,even windows 10 is doing that.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Windows did not have a functional clipboard. Go look at all the complaints over the years.
**Windows historically had only a single-item clipboard and no built-in UI/history. **
A separate one shipped with MS Office that let you store something like 12 to 20 items. Why? Because windows sucked and DID NOT HAVE ONE.
Windows itself did not get a built in Win+V searchable/historical clipboard until windows 10.
Yes, better than XP, still not good. I am not going to do your homework, but Windows 10 was the first release that really focused on isolation, secrets management, and virtualization of applications for system wide and user protection.
Just as well, you don’t know what you are talking about anyways.