• Most experts agree Linux is safer than Windows

  • All scientific supercomputers use Linux

  • Professional hackers use Linux

  • Linux is the undisputed backbone of internet servers

  • Critical military infrastructure relies on Linux

Microsoft’s revenue was $300 Billion last year. They have unlimited ressources.

So why is Windows still worse than Linux ?

  • plz1@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    17 hours ago
    1. Linux isn’t driven by a profit-first motive, so user-centric decisions come first
    2. There is no number 2
    • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Only partially user-centric decisions because the @someRandomOEM.com and @redhat.com people will send drivers with no documentation to go with it due to NDAs. Also only partially user-centric decisions because if someone is backed by a company, their solution will be pushed faster.

      People on free software adjacent forums (probably originated on linux {.} org {.} ru?) thought of a standard unit of measurement for how much pedantic force a person is able to apply. It is called “1 Poettering”, named after Lennart “Harry” Poettering. Values greater than 1 have not been observed; it is often assumed to be the highest constant similar to the speed of light. Here’s a table from (my very subjective) consensus:

      • Lennart “Harry” Poettering - 1 (the system deez nuts guy)
      • Mark “Shuttlecock” Shuttleworth - .9 (the Canonical guy)
      • Hans Reiser - .7 (ReiserFS)
      • Richard Stallman - .6 (GNU)
      • Linus Torvalds - .5 (Linux)
      • Theo De Raadt - .17 (OpenBSD)

      Maintainers of random projects that everyone takes for given are <=.1 until they riot when it becomes .6 temporarily.