I know it can be hard to have your ideas quedtioned, but at least try to be civil. I never questioned your intentions, yet youre acting like im crazy.

I think that’s all you. I have never suggested that you are crazy. I suggested that calling Microsoft software “safe” as opposed to Linux which is, “insecure,” sounds like trolling. But that’s because it sounds like trolling. No crazy stated or implied.

A walled garden is obviously more secure than an open source project because nobody can even see the code to find vulnerabilities in it.

You should learn more about the world of software. Seriously. Security experts have been reasonably unanimous in their support of the “Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow” approach to software security for decades, even while they have criticized it as a mantra that ignores the flaws in a presumption of open source software security.

But just to put it in a simple logically sealed box: Microsoft’s source code has been leaked several times, and of course, bad actors probably have gained access to it throughout the years without such public knowledge. This means that the fundamental difference between Microsoft’s proprietary codebase and open source codebases is not, cannot be the availability of source code. Rather, it is the ability for independent groups to review the code on an ongoing basis.

When the only difference is independent review, the only possible result is higher security.

I understand that you like horses. You ride one every day, and you might have evwn named your horse. The fact is that its time to buy a car.

None of this constitutes a logical refutation to the examples I provided, which are critical components of modern software development and deployment.

Source: I’m a professional software release engineer who has worked with many of the world’s largest corporations.

Quality software costs money

For starters, this is unfounded cargo culting. There is no evidence for this at all. I can point to dozens of very expensive piles of crufty old software that no one should ever go near, and also to some free software that is literally foundational to the modern software world.

Money has nothing to do with the quality of software, but you’re also mistaken if you think open source software is free. You can pay IBM millions of dollars for a suite of enterprise-ready open source software. Most of the cost in such software is rarely the software itself. It’s services, support, training and customization.

Throwing rocks is also simpler than firing a gun, yet modern militaries arent training slingers anymore

But they are succeeding wildly by using largely open source software running on open hardware for drones, networking, battlefield analysis, logistics, etc.

soon as we have reliable, functional quantum computing

Which we’ve been told is right around the corner for decades. The issue is that QC doesn’t scale up. If you try you get vastly more noise than signal. Current work in QC is all aimed at reducing that noise, but even for only 70 qbits, the current state of the art can’t eliminate enough of the noise for QC to be useful in most applications.

The only places it’s currently bearing any fruit is where all of the extra work to reduce noise and the delays that incurs are irrelevant because there is no classical approach at all. But even then, the costs are enormous and the benefits are miniscule.

The best example of this is Linux.

Ouch… so, you might want to learn more about technology before commenting in a Technology community…

why does a modern operating system require you to use a terminal

Because a terminal is one of the most powerful modes of interaction ever invented. It can serve as a relatively low-tech UI, but it is also simple enough to be used as a machine interface. It is lightweight, works even when other protocols and interfaces are thwarted by infrastructure issues, because it is simple text, but also meant to be read by a human, it can make for a great interface for logging, you don’t have to guess at which obscure standard (if any) to use to talk to it, compliance with relevant standards is baked into nearly every language ever written, etc.

Try building a system like Kubernetes on graphical UIs… I dare you.

Its THE example of ancient software being pushed on to niave techies

What industry are you working in?! AWS is nearly all Linux. Google Cloud is nearly all Linux. Android is Linux. Hell, even Microsoft finally relented and is now strongly supporting their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) because it’s necessary for supporting modern cloud applications.

that would rather have an insecure open source project than a safe, walled garden like Microsoft Windows 11.

Okay, this has to be a troll… right? This is a troll? Please tell me you can’t be serious.

I wouldn’t say obsolete because that implies it’s not really used anymore.

I’m not sure where you heard someone use the word “obsolete” that way, but I assure you that there are thousands if not millions of examples of obsolete technologies in constant and everyday use.

Fun fact: password controls like this have been obsolete since 2020. Standards that guide password management now focus on password length and external security features (like 2FA and robust password encryption for storage) rather than on individual characters in passwords.