Comment by charcircuit

5 days ago

By this definition no operating system Google releases will be secure to you. I think it would be a more productive discussion if you could argue about security ignoring that you have to trust the person who wrote your operating system or designed your cpu.

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bandrami  5 days ago

The point of open source is I don't have to trust the person who wrote it

  • _carbyau_  4 days ago

    You don't have to. Which is good!

    But in practical terms there is a lot of trusting of someone/their-code going on. Unless you are reading/understanding it all.

    I trust linux more than windows. But I've never read a line of it...

    • ivell  4 days ago

      I think their point is that the source being open keeps the developers more honest. Of course there have been supply chain attacks in open source, but that is more probable to be found out than closed source ones. In short, auditability improves security.

    • wkat4242  4 days ago

      The thing is, there's always someone who does read it or inspect changes. It will surface soon enough if untoward things are happening.

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  • omnifischer  4 days ago

    It works well for you.. but for average person. No.

    As a 20 year old linux user, I do often use ChromeOS or ChromeOSflex. Just works. Beautiful UI. No more pain with webcam or wifi drivers - Yes, these have improved by still one has the pain of dropped packets (realtek wifi) etc. guaranteed 10 hour battery life.

    With ChromeOS I just get 4 or 5 second - update - immutable OS. Fedora Silverblue is coming up but still not there.