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Most experts agree Linux is safer than Windows
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All scientific supercomputers use Linux
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Professional hackers use Linux
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Linux is the undisputed backbone of internet servers
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Critical military infrastructure relies on Linux
Microsoft’s revenue was $300 Billion last year. They have UNLIMITED ressources.
So why is Windows still worse than Linux ?
Because their management structure is horrendously overbloated and their internal culture is horrific.
I used to work for them. Every manager, every team lead, at every level, is viciously trying to climb to the top of the crab bucket, and pull every one else down at the same time.
Look at Asha Sharma’s recent statment on reorganizing Xbox.
14 levels of management. 14. You have have a boss, who has a boss, who has a… up to fucking 14.
… the entire company is like this, not just Xbox.
Thats why everything is insane broken nonsense.
Oh, that and extreme over reliance on contractors to do most of the actual work. Contractors don’t get stock options, you see.
This results in a situation where half of any project’s timeline is the new contractors just trying to understand the code the previous contractors made.
That is all wasted time, compared to if you just actually had a consistent team you paid properly… and of course it massively exacerbates technical debt.
Nothing is actually properly documented, there are very, very few people who actually understand a codebase and have been maintaining and growing it for 10 years, no, its 10 years of 10 different sets of contractors, and maybe 3-6 different managers ‘overseeing’ this.
It is all spaghetti code.
There has never been a totally new Windows, certainly not in this century. That has never happened, and they lie internally to their own employees about that.
There has never been a total refactor of Windows. Windows 11 still has UI menus from Win 7, possibly fucking XP, if you dig deep enough.