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by jstanley 2803 days ago
Even if that were the case, a free software hegemony is surely better than a proprietary Microsoft hegemony.
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Write for yourself -- I've no problem paying Apple Computer for a solution which I plop down on a table, turn on, and start using immediately after that without having to fiddle with it.
They regularly fuck up security so much that you aren't getting what you pay for. In the last major release they both allowed anyone to login as root by just not supplying a password, and writing the FDE password on the disk in plaintext as the "hint" instead of the actual hint.