Hi /g/ I'm a windows user but today i realized the extent

>>59398470
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>>59398470
If you have exclusive access to the hardware and you didn't encrypt your drive there's pretty much no hope for you, regardless of what operating system you have.

>>59398470
Unless you encrypt your disk it's just as easy to get into a linux install mate.

Windows does suck balls, but that's not the reason why.

>>59398470
If someone has physical access to your devices it's as good as compromised

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>>59398470
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>59398621
Yes, but the average Linux distro has better built-in disk encryption than Windows, ans you can enable it easily when you first install the operating system.

Like, I tried Win 8's BitLocker shit and the only thing it actually did was lock certain tasks that the average user would probably rarely do unleaa I put in a key. Meanwhile, my Debian installation's built-in LUKS/dm-crypt encryption actually does what disk encryption is supposed to do: not let you get into anything unless you put in a password. (Well, in my case, anything but GRUB Invaders.)