The "End of 10" website is a cooperative effort to let people know that they have other options besides buying a new computer. The site seems to be Europe -oriented, but you can check it out. We need a similar site for Americans.
"...spy packages unwittingly snuck into them via GNU and other open source that are actually malicious code."
It's because of it being open-source that the xzutils fiasco was discovered. An autist noticed a performance regression and started digging. I think it was taking something like 100-200ms to do something.
In Windows, something taking an extra tenth of a second would have gone unnoticed, and there would be no way anyone could figure out what the problem was.
uvulectomy 4 points 5 hours ago
It's because of it being open-source that the xzutils fiasco was discovered. An autist noticed a performance regression and started digging. I think it was taking something like 100-200ms to do something.
In Windows, something taking an extra tenth of a second would have gone unnoticed, and there would be no way anyone could figure out what the problem was.