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> As long as some platform is capable and powerful for many things, there will be malware. This is true but there are also degrees of that. Windows in particul
by orbital-decay 3y ago
> As long as some platform is capable and powerful for many things, there will be malware.
This is true but there are also degrees of that. Windows in particular is a graveyard of discarded tech waiting to be galvanized by malware, because of the backwards compatibility and because of the Microsoft's habit of abandoning the half-done frameworks and APIs. Apple's stuff is much tidier just because they regularly deprecate and compress their fully owned stack (although they also have their turds of course). In Linux, there's terrible fragmentation and a lot of ancient and barely maintained stuff, but at the same time it can be customized to only include the best practices and omit a lot of dead weight.