inari@piefed.zip to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoAfter Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distroswww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1174arrow-down17
arrow-up1167arrow-down1external-linkAfter Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distroswww.xda-developers.cominari@piefed.zip to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square37linkfedilink
minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·9 hours agoWindows is very cheap if you don’t pay for it, and all the backdoors are a feature for the powers that be.
minus-squaresteelplatedmech@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 hours agoSurely China can’t be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they? I don’t understand how another country can use another hostile country’s closed operating system for sensitive material.
minus-squareKssioAug@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agoI would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry. I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.
Windows is very cheap if you don’t pay for it, and all the backdoors are a feature for the powers that be.
Surely China can’t be fine with the US poking around their government computers? Or are they?
I don’t understand how another country can use another hostile country’s closed operating system for sensitive material.
I would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry.
I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.