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I'm all in on linux. [Damien Wilde] (www.youtube.com)
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windows is ass. i use only linux now.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

I mean Linus did kick out some russians based on US sanctions

How exactly is that better than Windows?

open source

You are aware that there was a critical security hole in X for almost three decades, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    First one I agreed he bowed to pressure. 2nd one, not sure which one you mean. Every software has vulnerabilities yet to be discovered, researchers work hard to breakstuff. Windows had tons that researchers disclosed to them and they refused to fix, until researchers started issuing the vulners daily (and said they had 100s more they could release all year). Open Source means we can check and fix once discovered, good luck getting a for profit corporation to act. Re: the recent national defense issue with MS not disclosing vulnerabilities because they didtn want to kill their sales.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Open Source means we can check and fix once discovered

    How many % of your operating system’s source code have you 1) read and 2) understood?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's a strawman if I ever saw one

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s not a strawman. You said “but I can read the source code!”. Do you? Because if you don’t, it doesn’t really matter, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Now you are changing words or read it too quick. I never said I. We as in anybody. Again another strawman second sentence. How do you think the researcher found the vulner for xz. He noticean tiny slow down and started scrutinizing code. Closed source is a false sense of security by obscurity. Open source means anyone can scrutinize the code.

    Also we deal with enough proprietary software at work to get inside TSBs. Much of proprietary code also is built on open source pieces, so if your troll argument is opensource is bad, then proprietary is also bad on top of that.

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