Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : tenser
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Apr 26 2022 00:12:56

 te> I think I've been very civil and polite with you.
 te> 

As have I.  And I say this with all due respect, but your style of debate is somewhat difficult to digest.  One brings up general ideas which impact a majority of people, and you debunk it with a corner case which may affect a few, if any.
 te> Perhaps not to you.
 te> 
 te> 
 te> Actually, that's not true.  If, say, the unpatched
 te> ancient version of the Linux kernel running on your
 te> storage device gets hacked and starts exfiltrating
 te> your data by talking directly to your Ethernet
 te> device without your IOMMU being able to intervene
 te> because they're on the same side of a PCI bridge,
 te> that seems like the sort of thing that would have
 te> an impact on you.  This is, of course, even worse
 te> if it happens to, say, your bank.
 te> 
 te> Similarly, if the ME in your Intel CPU is hackable,
 te> that might have a profound impact on you.
 te> 

 te> Again, I think I've remained polite and civil throughout
 te> this conversation.  If you disagree, please feel free
 te> to point something out.
 te> to point something out.
 te> 
 te> But this is just rude.
 te> 
 te> 
 te> Just like very few people buy computers to customize their
 te> shell or window manager.  They buy their computers to do some
 te> useful work, because computers are tools.
 te> 

It wasn't my intent to be rude, it just seems like you are arguing tangental points, and thinking that any argument that can be made, is one with veracity.

I don't particularly like a debating style which gets bogged in technicalities.  They are, to me, disingenuous and a waste of time.  It seems a common debating style, and one I'm not interested in, as it doesn't resolve any problems, other than to make one person claim to be correct over the other.

I'm not suggesting you're doing this deliberately, but I can't see value in it and whether "technically" Windows is POSIX or not doesn't interest me, nor matter, nor does it matter if "technically" there is a chip on my computer which might be closed off and has at the moment, little practical different on the choices I can make.

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