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> Certainly better than closed source Windows 10 and OSX. How can you tell?
by j88439h84 6y ago
> Certainly better than closed source Windows 10 and OSX.
How can you tell?
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- elteto 6y agoBy looking at it, literally.
- Razengan 6y agoHow can you compare?
- xyproto 6y agoCan know for sure vs nobody knows. The comparison is clearly in favor of Linux.
- Razengan 6y ago> The comparison is clearly in favor of Linux. Magnitudes of more people use Windows and macOS than Linux* and they have yet to fail catastrophically. * not counting servers and embedded
- _-___________-_ 6y agoThere are far more devices running Linux in the world than Windows & macOS combined. That would seem to be a much more useful comparison than how many people own those devices. Parent post was updated to say "not counting servers and embedded", but dismissing smartphones -- literally the most popular type of personal computing device in the world -- this way seems to completely invalidate the point.
- j88439h84 6y agoI dunno, why do you say that?
- _-___________-_ 6y agoThe parent thread was about possible backdoors; more devices running a piece of software = more surface area for any possible backdoor in that software.
- speedgoose 6y agoThe windows source code is actually readable for very large organizations and governments.
- iso947 6y agoBut not the White hat hacking world.
- megous 6y agoBut can they build it and run it? Or do they have to trust the code is current and matches the binaries?
- speedgoose 6y agoI would belive so. Probably possible to compile and debug but not distribute. There is little information about it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
- j88439h84 6y ago> Can know for sure can know what -- that there isn't a backdoor? I can look at Linux source all day and not find the answer to that.
- xyproto 6y agoWe, as a community, can. One dedicated person, can.