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One of the major reasons genetic diversity is important is that it makes it harder for a population to be wiped out by infection. The windows monoculture is ine
by unimpressive 14y ago
One of the major reasons genetic diversity is important is that it makes it harder for a population to be wiped out by infection. The windows monoculture is inevitably a victim of itself.
- ygra 14y agoIt doesn't seem wiped out yet.
- unimpressive 14y agoIt's not advantageous for a parasite to immediately kill it's host. By 'wiped out' I don't mean the literal death of windows installs, I mean in the sense that a pristine windows install will, on average, slowly accumulate cruft until it's on the verge of being unusable. It's not a 1:1 analogy. In a strictly practical sense, an individual windows install may not be nonoperational due to mal/spy/crapware, but the quality of the user experience goes way down as a result of it.