Windows is the malware compatibility layer for everything

Re:Windows is the malware compatibility layer for everything by JPws_Prntr_Fngr on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:53PM (#36699894)

You're right, add an asterisk for games. My whole point is the nerd will get stuck/fixated on his original way of doing things, which for a Windows nerd (like my past self) is spending your meager cash to cobble together a custom pc powerful enough to play games as a child/teenager, and pirating everything possible. Windows was The Best OS Ever (because you have no choice) - just like your [Xbox|PS2] was the Best Console Ever (because you couldn't afford both).

Of course, the adult version of this nerd will be able to weave much better post-hoc rationalizations. Head on over to ars technica or reddit or macrumors or linustechtips video comments for thousands of examples.

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Re:Windows is the malware compatibility layer for everything by tracker1 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:52PM (#36701509)

Honestly, my biggest gripes against Windows is the current direction of monetization of users... When I saw ads in my start menu search results, I was out. I've still used it a couple times for work, I still have it on my desktop, that I've booted to that drive twice. I've spent a fair amount of time getting some Windows things running on Linux.

All said, I like and dislike aspects of Windows, Mac and Linux... they all have faults. I'm a bit more forgiving of Windows in terms of security today (after a decade+ of working very diligently at it) than a couple decades ago, when I saw the likes of ILoveYou and I forget the SQL Server one a year or two later. Those were just stupid decisions all around (running Email in "local/full-access" security context instead of internet/untrusted). Similar for the SQL issue.

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