• zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        you’re conflating security and privacy which are two entirely different subjects.

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          1 year ago

          I love my security resting in the hands of a multibillion dollar corp, so that way when they get hacked I get lumped in! So secure!

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            1 year ago

            who do you think is maintaining a majority of packages of linux? there are plenty of reasons to use Linux over windows, I haven’t touched windows in a good year or two, but it is immensely less secure without significant hardening efforts that aren’t exactly trivial to understand. Windows isn’t great on security either, MacOS is ahead of it and ChromeOS is even farther.

            I will concede, assuming you have the in-depth knowledge required, you can build a more secure platform with Linux due to the ability to compile the kernel with only needed features and being able to fully control what is allowed. out of the box, no custom kernels, basic user experience? Linux sits at the bottom.

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      1 year ago

      You’re going to need to specify what Windows and what distro at least. But I would argue that most people’s idea of computer security would include privacy. Not that they get it, but if you asked someone if they feel Facebook posts are secure because others can’t edit them, I think you would get some head scratches and people saying they are available to the world.