Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers

• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably not in the metaphorical brothel.

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  • IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I should have mentioned that I still love Linux though…

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe the 'ol junkyard? It was crazy fun when we were kids and we got fond memories of it.

      I hate microsoft BTW, windows has just gotten a bit too bloated and obnoxious IMO.

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• parpol@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At the hospital on 100% copium ventilators.

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  • IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sorry, I don’t get it. For what are we coping?

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    • parpol@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Microsoft just recently implemented a screenshot spyware on your computer and an AI with the widest attack surface for hackers ever on your OS and mixed it into your most basic tool, the file explorer, then blocked off a quarter of all users for using 2-5 year old hardware, instead of implementing software fixes to avoid hardware vulnerabilities.

      It then forced you to use a closed source hardware component that likely has a backdoor, to store all your encryption keys, required you to make a Microsoft account just to use your PC, and then use that account to spy on your every move both online and offline. It is a privacy nightmare.

      It then keeps overriding your default settings to make you to use Microsoft products over other ones, and have started baking in ads into various menues.

      If you still don’t think that makes it the worst OS, you’re obviously coping. I have used Linux, Windows, and Mac, and out of those three, Windows is at the very bottom.

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      • IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A) None of that has actually happened. If you want to back down from hyperbole and provide specific examples, I will consider addressing them.

        B) The U.S. Government is not an adversary in my threat model. If it is one in yours, I assume you are running Qubes OS, which is a completely different conversation. With Windows, I have access to Secure Boot and TPM-backed full drive encryption (including hibernation support) out of the box. Can you do that with Linux? Also, you know as well as everyone else here that the MSA requirement is easy to bypass.

        C) Again, provide specifics. I don’t default any of my apps to Microsoft’s and this just doesn’t happen.

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