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Well, Windows is worse by far

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Idk about worse but it is possible for two things to be bad. If one spies for china and the other spies for america, they’re both effectively the same. There’s other more trustworthy options than either however, so unless someone has a gun to your head forcing you to pick one of the two this whataboutism is a false dichotomy, just pick “something else.”

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Ah yes, a dystopian government OS with direct uplink to the thought police is much less of a security risk and convenience loss than a by all objective measures reasonably working and widespread OS with broad compatibility, just because the latter is made by a for profit corporation, MICROSOFT EVUL GUYS AMIRITE

I’m a Linux user myself due to the hostile practices of win11, but get some perspective ffs

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The odds that the US Government, under the authority of Patriot Act, has not inserted spyware into the Windows kernel, I put at an even 50/50.

The US Government has the motive, the leverage (huge customer of Microsoft), and maybe even the legal authority (the Patriot Act overreaches like crazy, and arguably compels certain government officials to gather all available data).

To be clear, I’ve never seen a shred of evidence that there’s any official sanctioned backdoor in Windows. But I can’t honestly claim to be sure it’s not there.

It’s all a bit of a moot point though, as the vast majority of Windows installs export nearly every scrap of data to Office Cloud, and if Office Cloud doesn’t have a government back door, I will eat my hat.

Source: The text of the Patriot Act. It basically outright says “we will put a listener anywhere we can reasonably fit one, on US soil.”

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Sure…an open source OS is worse than a closed one. Because you are too lazy to check the former, yet trust the latter ignoring all its well documented cases of spying on users…

Maybe you should try to go back to basic logic over idiological tribalism before you question other people’s perspective.

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I’m all for open source, but being open source does not mean that it cannot be, or even that it is unlikely to be malicious

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Zero reading comprehension. I am not a windows user myself as I said, and would happily recommend virtually any other Linux distro (aside from the fact that I am at best a novice when it comes to the various differences) over windows.

But not one made by, or at least greenlit by an autocratic regime that actively seeks to gain influence abroad. People shouldn’t use fucking red star OS either.

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You think Microsoft doesn’t give a direct uplink to America’s thought police?

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Its just the countries of government changed lol. It’s not like we don’t have evidenced for microsoft leaking user data and allowing fbi to hack windows computers. At least in case of deepin we don’t have evidence

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