Yeah. Sure, ley me dig up my stash of ilegal viruses. Oh wait. I dontkeep one.
I am telling you, as a software developer, software has bugs, security bugs, and once they are out, OSs push security updates. Can that update introduce new ones? Of course! But at least it take time to be found. The other vulnerability is already found and exploited.
Nobody is claiming that there is a 0-click virus to wreck everything. But there are way more viruses for win 7 than for up to date win 11, because companies keep outdated windows and the vulnerabilities already exist.
How out of date are you? You mighe be vulnerable to eternal blue, which would be hilarious.
Computers get herd immunity too. Virus do spread. The fact that everyone around you runs up to date things, keeps you safe
That’s right. As long as I don’t actively download things and run them blindly, I’ll be fine. My herd immunity consists of adblockers, hosts file, and a managed router.
The only thing that will change the equation is when, inevitably, my little refurbished bargain 15 year old laptop will finally crash too often and become tiresome to use, and/or software I want to use forces win 11 for no reason. An example is KiCad, an electronics schematic and PCB design suite that does nothing fundamentally different than OrCAD did on a 386 40 years ago. Why it forces you to use Win 11 now is utterly mind-boggling to me, but I also grow tired of constantly having to find ways around artificial constraints.
Yeah. Sure, ley me dig up my stash of ilegal viruses. Oh wait. I dontkeep one.
I am telling you, as a software developer, software has bugs, security bugs, and once they are out, OSs push security updates. Can that update introduce new ones? Of course! But at least it take time to be found. The other vulnerability is already found and exploited.
Nobody is claiming that there is a 0-click virus to wreck everything. But there are way more viruses for win 7 than for up to date win 11, because companies keep outdated windows and the vulnerabilities already exist.
How out of date are you? You mighe be vulnerable to eternal blue, which would be hilarious.
Computers get herd immunity too. Virus do spread. The fact that everyone around you runs up to date things, keeps you safe
That’s right. As long as I don’t actively download things and run them blindly, I’ll be fine. My herd immunity consists of adblockers, hosts file, and a managed router.
The only thing that will change the equation is when, inevitably, my little refurbished bargain 15 year old laptop will finally crash too often and become tiresome to use, and/or software I want to use forces win 11 for no reason. An example is KiCad, an electronics schematic and PCB design suite that does nothing fundamentally different than OrCAD did on a 386 40 years ago. Why it forces you to use Win 11 now is utterly mind-boggling to me, but I also grow tired of constantly having to find ways around artificial constraints.
And I wouldn’t mind a new monitor too.
That is not herd immunity
Yes, thank you, I am telling you it doesn’t matter.