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Thats pretty much my argument when people say "There are more bugs on Linux than Windows! Linux bad!".
No, there are not more, there are more found. There are just as many (or more) on Windows, but never found or properly reported. Which is a bad thing.
There are more bugs reported. That makes all the difference.
People used to closed source everything are trained to eat shit and find a workaround.
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Jfc every goddamn time I need to fix something on my work laptop this is the exact (and only) response I find
Duh, you just have to get the Microsoft Store app from the Microsoft Store app!
This is a good point and one I think explains this phenomenon well.
Linux users are more willing to report bugs because they actually get fixed. Especially when the bug report is extremely detailed.
Some time ago all the tech "news" headlines where "Linux is less secure than Windows, look at all the CVEs open !", well yes Linux has tones more CVE reported because anyone can audit the code, bugs are discovered and reported, people are informed and can put mitigations in place, unlike with Windows...
Also, statistically, a lot of Linux users are more technically minded and capable of identifying and reporting issues. This will naturally lead to higher reporting numbers, skewing stats.
Linux users are participants. We choose purposely this OS, proactively download, install and configure it on our computers, we chose it because it's FOSS, and we are happy to report bugs because we have the hope it will eventually get fixed for our own benefit. We all know that Linux strives because we are few (or not so few) to care about our OS and any help counts even if it's just reporting a bug. This mindset extends to the whole FOSS ecosystem and even some proprietary SW like games ! Because we want those games to run well on Linux and therefore report bugs to developers. And this is why I love Linux and FOSS so much. It's wonderful :)
The other thing is companies care about CVEs as they use Linux to run their critical infrastructures.
I am sure companies care about CVEs in Windows and other proprietary SW as well. They can only wish they get found, disclosed and fixed.
Of course they do, but their are not big in number and market share. Maybe « Almost all world wide deployed critical infrastructures runs on Linux » is a better statement.
Exactly. It goes the same way in development too. People who say XYZ lang is better than Rust because "you get so many compile errors" suffer from the same misconception: Just because the errors aren't immediately obvious doesn't mean they aren't there.