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Linux is just a kernel. A kernel IS an operating system by itself. 60% of the mainline Linux kernel is drivers. When hardware is sold for use in servers, those drivers are professionally made. -That's not the case for desktop Linux component and peripheral drivers. Linux is a monolithic kernel. -That makes those 'unprofessional' reverse engineered by strangers' drivers a critical part of ring 0 (Danger Will Robinson).

What Loonixtards are calling Linux is actually GNU/Linux or LiGNUx. It's not what they're using on supercomputers (they often use proprietary software on top of the kernel (like Android does and stands out for)). They don't run the GNU userland, libraries, or anything resembling a Linux distribution. They're taking advantage (like Google does with Android) of a freely produced and maintained kernel). -It's like bragging about getting your food from a food bank.

Any OS can run a web server (free / free maintenance, modular, and lots of available admins is the ticket).

So, the question to maybe ask, is their opinion on GNU. -The group GPL cult that just barely got a 64bit kernel working for themselves (GNU Hurd). The group cult that chooses an ideal over utility and efficiency (GNU core utils vs Uutils rewrites). And the group that brought us a software license that's akin to a cancer.

The guy on the bottom left of the pic is the god-father of GNU Richard Stallman. To his right is the creator the Linux Kernel (with a tiny image edit) Linus Torvalds. The difference between the two is as drastic as the difference between GNU and the Kernel and neither crosses over into each other's areas, but both become trash when mixed as a desktop OS.

The grasping at what the 'kernel' is used for is just cope.

Rolling back a GPU driver on Linux is not a simple "lose 3% performance". It's a cascade of regressions, incompatibilities, and breakages that Windows users never deal with.

“old gpu drivers to play new game because new drivers that add and force new vulkan header broke many games” Linux Game Bros : r/linuxsucks101

It's no, exaggeration and it's something LiGNUts glaze over

Linux's gaming stack is a Jenga tower of dependencies. Proton depends on Vulkan, DXVK depends on Vulkan, vkd3d-proton depends on Vulkan, Games depend on Proton/DXVK/vkd3d, and Steam depends on all of the above. -It will never be as good as native games on Windows.

If you roll back the GPU driver, you're not just losing performance: You’re losing API versions: Newer games stop launching, Newer Proton builds stop working, Newer DXVK versions refuse to load, Shader pre-caching breaks, HDR support disappears, VR support breaks, Ray tracing paths fail, and Anti-cheat compatibility drops even further.

On Windows? -You install an older driver and everything else stays modern.

If a game or translation layer (DXVK, vkd3d) wasn't updated to match the new header, the game crashes, fails to compile shaders, loads but renders garbage, runs but tanks performance, or breaks input or fullscreen modes.

You can see the evidence in reports like: "new drivers that add and force new vulkan header broke many games". Linux doesn't freeze the graphics stack the way Windows does; it updates everything, even if it breaks compatibility.

Tails is built on Debian Stable (slow patches and stale attack surface)

The Tor Browser team moves fast. Debian Stable doesn't. Kernel vulnerabilities remain unpatched for weeks, hardware support is outdated, mitigations like retpolines, CET, LSM improvements arrive late, and Tor Browser updates are delayed because Tails must re‑test them

This means Tails is often safest months after a major exploit wave, not during it.

Tails depends on Tor, and Tor is the largest deanonymization target on Earth. It's heavily monitored, fingerprinted, exploited, researched, and targeted. -And Tails routes everything through Tor. Any Tor weakness becomes a Tails weakness.

Tails gets all the malicious exit nodes, traffic correlation, guard node fingerprinting, timing attacks, browser-level deanonymization, and JS exploits that bypass Tor's hardening.

Tails’ amnesia model is incomplete. Wiping RAM on shutdown still leaves GPU VRAM, MACs in the Wi-Fi firmware logs (worse than IP numbers for identifying you), USB controller retention, printer buffers, and disk controller write caches. Cold-boot attacks can also recover RAM anyway. -'Amnesic' is a marketing gimmick.

Tails tries to normalize hardware, but it can't hide CPU model, microcode revision, GPU quirks, clock skew, Wi-Fi chipset behavior, Bluetooth MACs, or USB controller IDs. -These can be correlated across sessions. Hiding your IP? - More like sending up red flags. If you want privacy, do it the old-fashioned way. -Become a Catholic Priest.

Tails can't protect you from BIOS/UEFI implants, Intel ME / AMD PSP, malicious USB sticks, firmware‑level persistence, Evil Maid attacks, and hardware keyloggers. Tails assumes your hardware is trustworthy (like Linux assumes you use ECC memory). -That assumption is fantasy.

Tails protects you from forensic analysis of your laptop, local network observers, and basic ISP surveillance. It won't do anything against global adversaries, targeted exploitation, deanonymization, metadata correlation, stylometry, human error, infiltration, compromised contacts, or supply chain compromise. Most people using Tails are using it for things it wasn't designed for. ("It wasn't made for you")

If Tor Browser has a JS exploit, sandbox escape, fingerprinting bug, WebRTC leak, font leak, canvas leak, or a timing leak… your anonymity collapses instantly! Tails has no fallback.

Websites can detect Tor Browser, Tails' default fonts, Tails' default locale, Tails’ default screen resolution, Tails’ default language pack. -Yes, it's like "Linux is great for security", but those distros for desktop aren't and BSD is better OOTB. If only a few thousand people use Tails daily, you're already in a tiny anonymity set: Being "one of 3,000" is not anonymity.

“If I run a hidden service from Tails, I’m invisible."

Reality:

• clock skew deanonymizes servers
• traffic fingerprinting reveals location
• misconfigured services leak IPs
• Tor hidden services are fingerprintable
• hosting mistakes expose real infrastructure

This is how multiple darknet markets were taken down.

Tails is great! It makes bad people feel safe enough to take risks they would never take otherwise!

Because they need privacy for their priest like behavior even when playing a game.

Is Linux Runs on Webservers Really a Brag?

BSD vs Linux

ISS Critical Systems do NOT run on Linux

GPL is a CULT!

BSD -Better networking stack, load handling, cohesiveness, documentation, power efficiency, and community (than Linux).

What makes LiGNUts think their piracy, sexual identity, or preference is such a concern that they should use a shitty OS that's fragmented, built, and maintained partially by 'volunteer' strangers? -Sounds like a Honey Pot to me.

CachyOS doesn't ship an AUR helper (Paru) by default anymore. Many Linux users loudly condemn the AUR's trust model while pretending F‑Droid doesn't suffer from the same structural weaknesses. Arch maintainers and downstream distros have been reevaluating the liability of bundling an AUR helper out‑of‑the‑box.

Shipping an AUR helper implies endorsement of the AUR. The AUR has recently had malware uploads, compromised accounts, typo‑squatting incidents, and packages going silently abandoned. No AUR makes Arch a crappy product because the official repository of Arch is tiny! -LiGNUts would be better to use OpenSuse Tumbleweed for a rolling release now if they're going to use distro-agnostic packages anyway.

Arch's wiki repeatedly stresses that the AUR is untrusted, unaudited, and user‑beware. Manjaro has had a pop-up warning about using it for years.

F‑Droid has structural problems that mirror the AUR:

• Silent abandonment of apps is extremely common.
• Build lag means apps often go weeks or months without updates.
• Weak signing and provenance controls have been repeatedly criticized.
• Security concerns are openly discussed in privacy communities.
• Community repos (IzzyOnDroid, etc.) introduce the same trust‑model fragmentation as AUR PKGBUILDs.

Linux users will scream about "AUR malware" while simultaneously telling people: "Just use F‑Droid, it's safer because it's FOSS."

Privacy‑focused communities even warn that F‑Droid has "weak security". Linux users treat "FOSS" as a moral shield. It's not a security model: It's a vibe.

Both ecosystems rely on volunteer maintainers, inconsistent review, trust‑based package submission, no formal auditing, no guaranteed update cadence. The difference is cultural, not technical. And... "Google wants to limit your ability to sideload apps!" -I hate Google more than anyone, but can you see why this attitude is just wrong? Reducing the simplicity of sideloading is a good thing. To a normal person, it sends a message of 'maybe be careful with this shit'.

Edge and Opera curate their extension stores btw.

There are YouTubers who bend their content because a loud, vocal minority of privacy‑fetish Linux/VPN evangelists reliably convert outrage into revenue. But it's not because those viewers pay for VPNs; it’s because they click, comment, brigade, and boost the algorithm whenever a creator panders to them.

They aren't valuable because they buy VPNs. -They're valuable because they are extremely online, extremely reactive, and extremely predictable (simple minded). They mass comment, like, disklike, brigade, argue for days, boost watch time, boost retention, CTR, and session time. It's gold for YouTube's algorithm, but garbage for ad companies that support them.

VPN companies love them. Creators know that if they pander to this crowd, VPN ads perform better. Many Americans don't even realize they do NOT need a VPN to pirate (you just can't upload / serve). They buy VPNs thinking they need them for those free streaming video sites / tv apps. They don't even realize how far cloud hosting has come, how great IRC (XDCC still is, etc). I'm not saying this to encourage piracy, but to point out that people are being sold a product they don't need.

Linux/privacy evangelists swarm videos that validate their worldview. They punish creators who deviate. If a creator criticizes Linux, Google, or privacy myths, this minority brigades them.

Successful creators learn quickly.

They soften criticism of Linux, privacy myths, or even VPN scams because the minority is a reliable sponsor‑friendly audience. -It's all about money and helping themselves, not helping you!

Fear sells. VPNs sell fear. Privacy evangelists amplify fear. Creators are exaggerating threat model, surveillance (notice they don't deep dive on this -because it isn't there), OS telemetry (again, nothing of substance to see), browser fingerprinting, and corporate data collection. -A lot of these simply make ads more effective which brings prices down and everyone benefits. The Linux crowd tends to be anti-work and thus anti-consumer. -They don't care about you or I getting better prices.

YouTube ads getting worse? -Maybe because Linux/privacy evangelists are killing the value per ad. It's a matter of time before corporations start recognizing this pandering and what it's doing. They will cut off revenue for political, religious, and conspiracy theorist content. Linux/privacy is political, and conspiracy theorist, but it's so far flying under their radar.

-From Wentworth: Nice show from Australia.