• 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      Nah, but there were some Linux evangelists claiming this couldn’t possibly happen to Linux and it only happened to Windows because Windows is bad. And it was your own fault for getting this BSOD if you’re still running Windows.

      And sure, Windows bad and all, but this one wasn’t really Microsofts fault.

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        3 months ago

        The sane ones of us know well that a faulty driver is a faulty driver, but! Linux culture is different. Which is why this happened so spectacularly with Windows. EDIT: and not with Linux

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          3 months ago

          I’ve had the proprietary Nvidia driver crash my whole system a few times. Hoping their new open-source driver (not nouveau, I mean the new out-of-tree open-source one) is better.

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            3 months ago

            I had X crash due to Nvidia under FreeBSD a few times, and fewer kernel panics due to it. Never used Linux with Nvidia though.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, it supports kernel modules, so is also vulnerable to bad third party kernel code.

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            3 months ago

            🤔if nobody makes a third party kernel module, then there is still no risk

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        3 months ago

        if they dont know the boot sequence is a thing maybe their opinion on this doesnt really matter 🤷🏼

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      3 months ago

      I’m not shocked at all, but there seems to be a very sizable number of people on Lemmy who think if people just used Linux there’d never be another problem or exploit again, which is ridiculous. Mac users used to feel the same way until the market share started to grow and all of the sudden you’re seeing news of serious exploits.