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what kind of "hacker" use windows as a main OS though? windows is only for gaming and testing the software you ship

• deafpolygon 3y ago
  What about Windows that makes it unsuitable? In fact, the majority of "hacking" and the proliferation of "hacking culture" over the history has been done on Windows - not any flavor of UNIX like many would have you believe. Don't gatekeep.
  • throwawayadvsec 3y ago
    Windows is good for getting hacked, unix is good for hacking
  • akho 3y ago
    What’s a “hacking culture”?
    • deafpolygon 3y ago
      I did quote it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
      • akho 3y ago
        I thought you somehow differentiate “hacker” and “hacking”, because you are not making sense otherwise.
        • anthk 3y ago
          This. Common Lisp and Emacs' hacker/AI/REPL programming world make Windows' cracking culture a running joke.
  • xigoi 3y ago
    > What about Windows that makes it unsuitable? It's proprietary and user-hostile, with things like tracking and forced updates.
    • deafpolygon 3y ago
      I agree that aspect is unpalatable for some, but it does not exclude the usefulness of the OS to hack on things with.
  • anthk 3y ago
    You wish. Proper hacking has been done under Unixen and before, MIT with ITS and Lisp. You don't know anything about hacker culture. The cracking one, maybe. Unix and Lisp users run circles on Windows' crappy warez culture any day.