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I asked my original question very deliberately. At the end of the day, it’s just about trust and reputation. I see no technical difference here for the ability
by madeofpalk 1y ago
I asked my original question very deliberately.
At the end of the day, it’s just about trust and reputation. I see no technical difference here for the ability to disprove random claims.
- 7373737373 1y agoThe necessary technical and UI/UX difference would be capability-based (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security) microkernels like Sel4 or Genode combined with high level user interfaces that allow one to monitor and control the rights and actual resource access and usage of programs
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoHowever, it is possible to audit the Ubuntu software against the source code which is something that you cannot do with Windows. That is a technical difference even if you don't acknowledge it. Also, Linux does make it much easier to determine your level of trust as the different components can be analysed/verified independently (although systemd is a bit of a monolith) whereas it's a lot trickier to isolate Windows components.