As for long time now, around 70% of games are green!

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"What do you playing lately?"
Nothing special. Team Fortress 2, Albion Online, Humankind.

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Quoting: LachuBad Windows. People are using Windows and get sad. On normal systems, secretary/accountant do not has sufficient rights, but on Windows (with unskilled, cheap admin?). Additionally, Windows is not resist to malware, there was many bad design decision during Windows creating, like opening programs downloaded from internet by double-click, etc.

You don't need admin/root for this attack to work and even on Windows any regular it department would remove admin rights from end users machines.

I know, there is no admin rights, but on Linux, after downloading malicious software, I must point system, this is a software, and I try to open/execute software. On Windows, some one could compile program with nice photography as icon, told me, this is photography from trip and I would open it! That's all...

Yes Windows have this idiotic tendency to use the file extension to determine what icon to view while using the actual meta data of the file when opening it leading to the user believing that they are clicking on a PDF while actually executing a EXE.

The popup for executing scripts/binaries that you talk about I think is more a Gnome (I also assume that KDE does it) thing than a Linux thing, but that might be semantics. So here I definitely agree that the Linux desktop environment handles this a million times better than Windows.

One caveat though is that attacks like these just as easily could use exploits in the browser/pdf-viewer/image-viewer etc to execute code rather than executing a binary and then we no longer have this protection (but here instead the fragmented Linux distro environment makes us safer in that the attacker doesn't know which browser or viewer that we are using or what version).

Yes. Even opening page in Web Browser or watching movie in Video Player, or viewing image in Image Viewer, PDF... could infect our computer. But see this in that way: use bug in these programs is much harder and what you say - attackers could only attack in one way, so attack vector is smaller, harder to use, etc. Bug in programs are patched, but this bug in Windows exists from beginning and still was not patched. Creating exe file pretending to be image, etc. is very simple, detecting and use bugs in programs is very hard. I will told this: attacking Linux requires skills and doing directed attack, but on Windows, hackers tend to use attack for the masses. One infected machine program are used to attack others computers, because attacking is so simple. Hackers have good days, because Windows. Even if we assume users are stupid and that's reason for spreading viruses, stupid users on other systems cannot be reason for spreading viruses, in fact, user must be very stupid, so told system: I know, that is a program, just execute it (or another: i known, that is a program, execute it and give it all permissions).

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Quoting: mad_mesaAya are a Windows OEM. So they have almost certainly signed an agreement with Microsoft that includes language that in return for lower prices for Windows, they agree to (among other things) obtain a license for Microsoft's patents on every Windows-compatible system they sell. Shipping a licensed Windows install on the device grants the license, anything else pre-installed requires an additional fee paid to Microsoft to license their patents.

They probably thought that if SteamOS (or their own Linux distribution) didn't violate Microsoft's patents they wouldn't have to pay, and Microsoft reminded them that doesn't get them out of the terms of the agreement because those devices can still run Windows so it wouldn't matter.

The only way out of it is to not be a Windows OEM at all, use some kind of Windows-incompatible boot process, or fight Microsoft in court over the terms of a contract they entered into, all of which Aya aren't willing to do.

You are truth. There are rumors from companies in European telling court, MS sign trade ordering it to pay MS for each sold devices as it has Windows preinstalled, even if it does not. Of course, Windows license normally costs 100$ (around), but MS makes big deal for companies, which sign devil trade with MS. In this case, companies could install Windows on device, for example, for 20$, but it must install Windows on every device.
Companies sign trade, even if Windows is bad, because client seen this: same PC configuration without Windows license costs 70$ less and Windows license costs 100$. And people thinking Windows is good, because it normally costs 100$, so that's a deal!
In that way Windows got world domination - simple by users dull. User thinking Windows is good, because there no option in many stores to buy devices without Windows and Windows costs 100$. But this is only magic.
And, if user order device manufacturer/reseller to refund Windows costs, they must refund 100$, because Windows real costs is secret. In this case, hardware vendors does everything to not refund Windows, even telling lies about Linux, creating rumors, etc.
That was great strategy!

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I remember, what people from Poland do with Facebook plans to implement XMPP. They hound plans and Facebook on official forums. They do not know, how world working. They claims Facebook should implement support for Gadu-Gadu, closed source competitor of Facebook/XMPP. If Gadu-Gadu agree, that would be kill for it. People does not understood Gadu-Gadu protocols are closed source (so agreement, etc. needed) and XMPP are free. It brinks me think about discussion with Windows users on forums. Mental slayers of closed source/Microsoft/etc. They known nothing about software or how world works, but they pretend to be specialist for many different kind of knowledge, like politics, IT, psychologist, economics, etc. I think, that many Windows users forces producer of this device to deliver it with Windows. Simple: by scamming.

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When we own games? Even, when we bought CD/DVD, we do not own content of it. We only buy rights to use content of CD/DVD in way vendor allow us. Do you read ever license text, of any non-free game?

Nearest of giving right to owning games are GOG. You can download offline installer and rip into CD. That's great! There's a way to connect modernity and tradition. You need to play game - you download, install, remove installer and play. Need to preserve game - you download installer and write to CD (or keep on hard drive). There is still big issue: you cannot sell/rent/etc, since GOG disallow this, that's the biggest reason, even GOG do not sell games.

But, where this removing user/client rights will bring us? I've read talk of some EU female parliament member. She told, that in future you do not own anything and you will be happy. She told, it will be great case for all of us. Do you even imagine, where this bring us? Every piece of our world, in future, will have integrated programmable circuit. Maybe every part of our world will be connected to internet. And yet, European Commission is trying to made internet non-anonymous. That's bring one think to us. Imagine, non-anonymous internet user will blame one's(?) car vendor or director of company producing cars. Next day, he/she would not go to work, because car vendor could lock one's car and order him/hes to remove his talk/post from internet. He would not go to job. This person could lost job and everything by one, single post on internet. In this case, most wealth people could control information on internet. Your shoes will have electrical circuit and was connected to internet, you say: Mark of X (Shoe's vendor manager) is stupid person. You do not even known, where mark work, but on next day, you would not even tie your (?) shoes, so you do not go walk, to shop, to work, to school, church, etc. You better own (?) many shoes of different vendor, or you will starve or will go to shop without shoes.

If companies will control our internet routers/modems, operating systems on PC, they even can analyze, what we wrote and turn off our devices needed to write post on internet.

So, if we would still allow companies to not sell their software to us, we could wake up in reality worse than communism regime! But many people would not known that, because people will be enslaved by vendors of things they own and companies will force them to write false information or remove truth from internet. What you could do to be able to walk around, go to shop, church, school, work, chemistry, hospital, use your internet connection, play games, turn on you computer, etc.?

So: promote free software and force parliaments to give more rights to device/software users (I am not write owners by indention), or we will be slavers.

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Quoting: LachuBad Windows. People are using Windows and get sad. On normal systems, secretary/accountant do not has sufficient rights, but on Windows (with unskilled, cheap admin?). Additionally, Windows is not resist to malware, there was many bad design decision during Windows creating, like opening programs downloaded from internet by double-click, etc.

You don't need admin/root for this attack to work and even on Windows any regular it department would remove admin rights from end users machines.

I know, there is no admin rights, but on Linux, after downloading malicious software, I must point system, this is a software, and I try to open/execute software. On Windows, some one could compile program with nice photography as icon, told me, this is photography from trip and I would open it! That's all...

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Quoting: LachuBad Windows. People are using Windows and get sad. On normal systems, secretary/accountant do not has sufficient rights, but on Windows (with unskilled, cheap admin?). Additionally, Windows is not resist to malware, there was many bad design decision during Windows creating, like opening programs downloaded from internet by double-click, etc.

I don't like Windows, however it has nothing to do with that story. Social Engineering doesn't care about the OS.

Yes. But there is difference, when system is designed in bad way, and clicking on link could install malware, or secretary have rights to install software by default.

Linux do not allow to install software without provide an password by default. Even, when we download software pointed by link, like on Windows (for example, somebody told us this is only image from holiday trip and not software), we must told system, we knew this file contain software. On Windows, we try to open image from holiday or report, potentially in Excel format, and we made mistake!

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Bad Windows. People are using Windows and get sad. On normal systems, secretary/accountant do not has sufficient rights, but on Windows (with unskilled, cheap admin?). Additionally, Windows is not resist to malware, there was many bad design decision during Windows creating, like opening programs downloaded from internet by double-click, etc.

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Microsoft needs to sell copyrighted GNU/GPL code as public domain to ones customers? I think, yes. I must reminder you, that some organization decided to take to court of Microsoft, because MS is stilling Free Software. Looking at history of this company, it always stole. MS stole GUI from Xerox, stole network protocols (kerbos), stole many solution from Linux desktop and now sold way to stole GNU/GPL code without need to break law.

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