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Daniel Micay’s take on GNU/Linux security(www.reddit.com)
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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

Wow.

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

Linux is not more secure than Windows because Linux is open source. Linux is more secure than Windows because Windows is shit code and bloatware that refuses the throw out code.

Have you ever had to wait a long time for a window to close in Windows? Even a system application coded by Microsoft? What's really happening there to make it take forever? Is it crunching a deep mathematical problem requiring serious calculation? Or is it just that even core Windows programmers can't understand race conditions in their own IPC? <- It's that one.

Windows is built on many layers of old code that their own team doesn't understand. If they understood it they would fix it.

And this old code makes it hard for them to deliver improvements even when it is critical. Not wasting millions of workers time on windows that won't open or close randomly for no good reason at all is a pretty high value improvement. Where else can't they deliver critical improvements for the same reasons? Security?

Proprietary software can be secure or insecure. Open source software can be secure or insecure. Windows will always be insecure because it is bloat shitware.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

What's really happening there to make it take forever?

It's dialing up Microsoft over a small baud rate to transfer all your keystrokes and data.

Also, bloat in all things is evidently good for the climate otherwise they wouldn't do it.

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[-]LarrySwinger1(+1|0)

Micay actually isn't the only security-focused developer to compliment wangblows, Joanna Rutkowska did it as well here.

BTW, Windows is the only one mainstream OS I'm aware of, that actually attempts to implement some form of GUI-level isolation, starting from Windows Vista. See e.g. this ancient article I wrote in the days when I used Vista at my primary laptop. Of course, it's still easy to bypass this isolation, because of the huge interface that is exposed to each GUI client (that also includes GPU API). Nevertheless, they at least attempt to prevent this at the architecture level.

Although that article itself is ancient now, from 2011, so it may not reflect the current state of things. Regarding the problem you talked about yeah, I've experienced this, of course, but that was ages ago back when I still used wangblows. It was part of my original frustration of that OS. Over time I simply came to assume it was because of my slow hardware as my experience with linsucks hasn't always been snappy either. Does that problem still occur?

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