• FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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      11 days ago

      Not sure what you “security” link has to do with anything, but Windows has had a pretty great security record for the past decade at least. Arguably better than Linux and at least on par. They do things like static analysis of drivers which as far as I know Linux doesn’t require.

      There are still a lot of vulnerabilities, but don’t try to disprove this with a link to some CVE because there are also a ton of Linux vulnerabilities.

      Also Microsoft doesn’t take the dubious view that security bugs are “just bugs” and don’t deserve special consideration.

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      A lot of Windows bugs are memory corruption bugs. And those are often severe. Using Rust does actually prevent memory corruption. The rest of Windows is still probably insecure, but any security improvement is good.

      Also, the SSD bugs may have been caused by prerelease SSD firmware. With all this back and forth who knows though.