• Metz@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Thats pretty much my argument when people say “There are more bugs on Linux than Windows! Linux bad!”.

    No, there are not more, there are more found. There are just as many (or more) on Windows, but never found or properly reported. Which is a bad thing.

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      11 months ago

      There are more bugs reported. That makes all the difference.

      People used to closed source everything are trained to eat shit and find a workaround.

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        11 months ago

        Hi, Micro$oft Community Advisor Alicia here!

        I’m sorry to hear that your software occasionally crashes. Trying some of these steps may help you:

        • Go to Windows Update and search for the latest drivers
        • Run ‘sfc /scannow’ in command prompt
        • Reinstall Windows

        Please mark my post as “Answer” if this helped you solve your problem! Thank you!

        • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zone
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          I told them I couldn’t get the Microsoft store to open and they told me to open the Microsoft store, what a bunch of morons. Ended up just reinstalling even though it was probably just a library issue.

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        11 months ago

        This is a good point and one I think explains this phenomenon well.

        Linux users are more willing to report bugs because they actually get fixed. Especially when the bug report is extremely detailed.

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      11 months ago

      Some time ago all the tech “news” headlines where “Linux is less secure than Windows, look at all the CVEs open !”, well yes Linux has tones more CVE reported because anyone can audit the code, bugs are discovered and reported, people are informed and can put mitigations in place, unlike with Windows…

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        11 months ago

        The other thing is companies care about CVEs as they use Linux to run their critical infrastructures.

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          11 months ago

          I am sure companies care about CVEs in Windows and other proprietary SW as well. They can only wish they get found, disclosed and fixed.

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            11 months ago

            Of course they do, but their are not big in number and market share. Maybe « Almost all world wide deployed critical infrastructures runs on Linux » is a better statement.

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      11 months ago

      Exactly. It goes the same way in development too. People who say XYZ lang is better than Rust because “you get so many compile errors” suffer from the same misconception: Just because the errors aren’t immediately obvious doesn’t mean they aren’t there.