/gay/ - gay

the NSA is younger than most of the gov backdoors being found in windows as they date back to at least DOS…
anyways because video games
its not like the gov even cares about anything besides terrorism, you can still get as much illegal shit as you want, if they really care they'll just take your computer anyways

and if you're that scared, you might as well just be making your own hardware to go with your open source os, because it's highly likely the gov can request backdoors through your CPU bios or just go airtight, no internet
I'd argue similar for mobo and gpu software, but I think half the companies making mobos don't know enough with what they're doing with their software to make anything malicious

>>6293
Older than patriot act nsa*

I've only used Linux since 2012.

>>6293
>anyways because video games
You can play over 80% of Windows games on Linux now. Probably almost every game you've played works on Linux. Check here.

https://www.protondb.com/

Even new and demanding games work. Ace Combat 7 just came out, works perfectly. Dark Souls 1/2/3, MHW, Dragon Quest XI, Nier Automata, Overwatch, Paladins, DragonBall Fighter Z, A Hat in Time, Tekken 7, Soul Calibur 6, etc. All work on Linux.

Some games do still need manual workarounds for Windows Media Player and now Media Foundation, to play certain games that use these for video files.

Like the new Resident Evil 2 remake works, but it needs a workaround for Media Foundation.

There is a CodeWeavers (Wine) developer working on a Media Foundation implementation right now though.

DX11 support has gotten really good, thanks to a project called DXVK which translates DX10 and DX11 to Vulkan, and can be used in Wine. This gives very good performance, some people even want to use DXVK on Windows.

> but I think half the companies making mobos don't know enough with what they're doing with their software to make anything malicious

Supermicro stock tanked hard because of reports that the Chinese government made them put spy chips on their motherboard's being sent to American companies. They won't even report their required filings so they got delisted from the NASDAQ and sent to OTC markets.

>>6295
Ew