Today i took my first steps into the world of Linux by creating a bookable Mint Cinamon USB stick to fuck around on without wiping or portioning my laptop drive.

I realised windows has the biggest vulnerability for the average user.

While booting off of the usb I could access all the data on my laptop without having to input a password.

After some research it appears drives need to be encrypted to prevent this, so how is this not the default case in Windows?

I’m sure there are people aware but for the laymen this is such a massive vulnerability.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    102·
    8 months ago

    This is a case where Windows-bashing is hypocritical. Almost no Linux distro has disk encryption turned on by default (PopOS being the major exception).

    It’s dumb and inexcusable IMO. Whatever the out-of-touch techies around here seem to think, normies do not have lumbering desktop computers any more. They have have mobile devices - at best laptops, mostly not even that.

    If an unencrypted computer is now unacceptable on Android, then it should be on Linux too. No excuses.

    • Jhex@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      Almost no Linux distro has disk encryption turned on by default (PopOS being the major exception).

      it’s usually an option in the guided disk partition

      If an unencrypted computer is now unacceptable on Android, then it should be on Linux too. No excuses.

      Linux is about choice, not whatever someone else thinks it’s acceptable

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 months ago

      If an unencrypted computer is now unacceptable on Android, then it should be on Linux too. No excuses.

      When is the last time you carried your desktop outside? Forgot it somewhere?