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by chaostheory 33 days ago
Sure, but the more barriers there are the better because it still reduces the number of threats. That’s why people choose to rent walled gardens. Otherwise, Linux would have higher adoption even among our crowd.

If you really value freedom over everything else, I don’t see value in putting bad bandages over closed platforms. Might as well just switch to an open one.
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chr15m 21 days ago
> the more barriers there are the better

No. Barriers have tradeoffs beyond simply safety. Safety is often possible without these barriers. False dichotomy.

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yjftsjthsd-h 33 days ago
> because it still reduces the number of threats. That’s why people choose to rent walled gardens. Otherwise, Linux would have higher adoption even among our crowd.

I seriously doubt that's the reason, compared to Linux not being the default and Microsoft having spent years sabotaging it.

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chaostheory 32 days ago
That era ended ended years ago.

MS Office is available for Linux and Linux is an option on Azure. Even some new games from the Xbox division are officially sanctioned to run on Linux.

There is no longer a good reason to stay in a walled garden for your personal machine. The author should just make the switch if staying in the Apple ecosystem, or any other closed system, makes him really unhappy

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