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Re: Irony ?

All run a proprietary OS? That's a mighty broad brush you paint with, sir.

Point taken, slightly exaggerated ... ;-)

As for the others talking OpenBSD, note, BSD fanboy here, you have no clue. You get Debian without the non-free repos, well, you get free drivers. FreeBSD, BTW, is quite the same ... OpenBSD just has better default settings (more restrictive, takes know-how to use) ... what was it, one OpenBSD CVE in 20 years with the default settings ? Something like that, maybe two, I have not looked in a long time ... compare that to several dozens of CVE's every single month for Windows, because IE and a hell of other BS is built-in, even in server editions (Ok, not nano ... but try and install non-MS software on that ... good luck!) ... also, in Windows, hardware drivers are provided by manufacturers, so they do not count towards the Windows CVE list ...

macOS has decent Unix userspace, yet, proprietary, so as unsafe as Windows, by definition.

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