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  • provides more security than windows.

    Doubt.

    Yeah, if you have a fucking clue what you’re doing which most casual users don’t. (That includes me.)

    The only significant advantage it has security-wise over Windows is not defaulting to an admin/root account and instead requiring an elevation of privileges.

    …but even modern Windows does the same now.

    Exploits exist for Linux and other open source products, corporations with Linux servers and GNU utilities get hacked… I mean fuck just go look at all the CVE’s, they don’t make them for nothing.









  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlCheckmate Valve
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    I was told to do it in exchange for money

    and most of the time neither do the business folk

    Allowing libraries to accrue over generations is something business folk keenly care about because it impacts profits over time.

    It’s literally why they have rules against transferring ownership.

    You can tell yourself it’s for other reasons, but you’d just be lying to yourself about Valve being more benevolent than they actually are. They actually are in it to make money. Being told to do it in exchange for money is pretty much why this will happen.

    Valve, at the end of the day, is still a company even if they’re marginally more consumer friendly than most. (Let’s not ignore that a lot of their “consumer friendly” decisions, like being able to return games, were literally because of laws saying they had to. They didn’t do it out of the “goodness of their hearts,” they did it because in some places they were being legally required to do so.)