this is not the first time they do something like this

I don’t understand, sorry. what I meant is the way you as the user do upgrades. you grab a terminal, elevate and run the system update command (zypper refresh, zypper update). major version upgrades are more complicated.

I can do this sure. But this is not noob friendly the slightest. and the YaST graphical tools don’t make it much better either.
I won’t say that the update system of windows is good because why the fuck does searching for updates minutes, and other reasons. but the UI of it is much better. it tells you what will it update, it has a button for starting the process, an automatism for it too. there’s also a menu for the update history.

how do they do regular updates? how do they do major version upgrades?

I think both of these is a big pain point.

I have been using the same CPU for half a decade. Not everyone is an impulse buyer.

why?

I disagree that users won’t do stuff on their own. They will, but they will allocate very little time to it, on average, especially when compared to a tech savy person. And that’s just because their computer is a tool.And if they cannot make their tool work for what they want to do, they’ll find another way. Or deem it impossible.

also don’t forget that many don’t even have the time and energy

and start off from a fundamentally wrong premise: that people are willing (let alone wanting) to manage their own operating systems.

people shouldn’t need to manage their own operating systems, to begin with

https://beehaw.org/comment/4094773

in my understanding OP was not comparing it to simple wireguard

where did you read it that rust obfuscates the code?

you want vmprotect and such for that

It’s up to users to know what they are installing.

Except when all you get is an UAC prompt when clicking the play button, without giving you any information, other than that it wants to execute an exe in a temp dir with a random name.

the kernel level part of that specific thing is preventing process startup after it was killed

antimalware is literally worthless as has been for at least a decade. not even once did I get a spyware (or other) alert for the software of any commercial data harvester company. they are literally bought out and even the blind can see this

to simple wireguard? there are wireguard based mesh network solutions out there

the AI thing must be something relatively new. shows they are all for using buzz tech

oh. is this optional? on a laptop it’s a good idea, but on my desktop I wouldn’t want it

when locking the screen, or when logging out?

if it’s the former, how will running programs not crash?

many, many do. what’s worse, to many of them that’s “the internet”, and when I offer them firefox, their complaint is that it does not show news articles…

in my understanding that won’t handle roaming between APs as good as a mesh setup. OpenWRT has a special wifi setup for that

all apps have their own processes, and the names of the processes were often the package name