hunter2@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?
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1 year agoIt was Ubuntu 8.04 in around 2013. I only did it to get a promotional item for Team Fortress 2 called Tux, a cosmetic item that looks like… Tux. I remember hating the UI/UX and promptly uninstalled it afterwards.
Eventually circled back around to Xubuntu for my low-end hardware and various other distros. Currently daily driving Fedora.
Quantum computers are nowhere near usable for breaking classical cryptography at the moment, though opinions on how soon it will come vary. As others have said, we have quantum resistant algorithms ready to go, so future encryption is fine.
The greater concern is that a lot of traffic and data encrypted using classical algorithms has been logged or stored in various mediums. An old encrypted drive, or communications stored by nation state actors (the NSA and such). These will be broken, and a lot of past secrets might come out from hiding.