Linux is in a weird spot, there is a valley you must not be in with it.
If you are a non-technical person who needs only a browser and solitaire, it's perfect.
If you are a highly technical person, it's great.
If you're just in between, you are fucked.
BuT nO OnE WaNtS tO WoRk AnYmOrE1
Yeah, when you're having fun pissing off people, people are pissed off.
Who would have guessed?
But still right on though
🎵🎶...Sweet dreams are made of this... 🎶🎵
It's not enough to pollute the Internet, it's time to pollute the world with radioactive waste.
That's brilliant!
For example, when you login on Github, go in your settings, authentication & security on the left.
Click "add passkey", enter your Windows Hello PIN, click save.
It will ask you to enter a name, so I go with ComputerName-GitHub
Click ok.
Done with this device.
How long does it take? Well, how fast can you do these steps?
I always thought of passkeys as a convenient way to authenticate.
I am password-less on multiple services.
I have an authentication app on my phone that authenticate me when I am away of my computers. I have passkeys on my personal computer and another set of passkeys on my work laptop.
If I have to authenticate from your computer I simply use my auth app, click on "it's a public computer" and I am good to go.
The dude discovered a butter knife and he tries to replace his spoon with it just to realize it doesn't work well for eating a soup.
With over 130 dependencies, I am sure they were all and will be audited in the future.
Hard pass for me.