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This is an old troll in new clothing. Back in the 1990s, people would claim that if Linux were used by anyone at all, it would be as buggy and insecure as Wind
by msla 9y ago
This is an old troll in new clothing.
Back in the 1990s, people would claim that if Linux were used by anyone at all, it would be as buggy and insecure as Windows 95 was. Because bugs magically pop up due to use.
Now it's claiming telemetry magically pops up due to use. Plus ça change, I suppose.
- greenhouse_gas 9y agoOn the other hand, the largest Linux distro by an order of magnitude (Android) is: 1. Locked down (so that you frequently can't even update to a newer release). 2. Has telemetry. 3. Has security bugs.
- msla 9y agoAndroid is only a "Linux distro" if you deliberately ignore all context in how people use that phrase.
- sverige 9y agoThe main context needed is that Android is only a "Linux distro" when Linux fans talk about the installed base of Linux.
- greenhouse_gas 9y agoNo. I know what a Linux distro look like. I'm just saying that the only Linux that could have conquered the world, through HP, Compaq or Dell pre-installing Linux on the Desktop, would have looked more like Android than Debian. Actually, it would have been worse, since at least Google is mandating some kind of inter-operability between OEMs together.