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Actually, I do. There's a lot of very bad design weirdness in Windows. Beginning with a multiple root filesystem. I know you don't have to use drive letters, bu
by bediger4000 2y ago
Actually, I do. There's a lot of very bad design weirdness in Windows. Beginning with a multiple root filesystem. I know you don't have to use drive letters, but it's common. Magic device files, LP, CON AUX regularly trip people up. Having file names make them executable causes all kinds of problems, especially when the file browser hides that detail. Never documenting which file types make something executable has caused problems, too. The tradition of single user systems mixes data, config and executables. I'm told you can avoid this, but it's often not the default. Even things like Win32 call design. There's often buffers passed that have caused troubles when they're on page boundaries and segfaults happen. This got fixed, I think, but it's evidence of pitiful foundations.
I do think Windows is something of a "dragon king" of malware due to its design.