On: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

[deafpolygon]

What about Windows that makes it unsuitable? In fact, the majority of "hacking" and the proliferation of "hacking culture" over the history has been done on Windows - not any flavor of UNIX like many would have you believe.

Don't gatekeep.

[xigoi → deafpolygon]

> What about Windows that makes it unsuitable?

It's proprietary and user-hostile, with things like tracking and forced updates.

[deafpolygon → xigoi]

I agree that aspect is unpalatable for some, but it does not exclude the usefulness of the OS to hack on things with.

[anthk → deafpolygon]

You wish. Proper hacking has been done under Unixen and before, MIT with ITS and Lisp. You don't know anything about hacker culture. The cracking one, maybe. Unix and Lisp users run circles on Windows' crappy warez culture any day.

[akho → deafpolygon]

What’s a “hacking culture”?

[deafpolygon → akho]

I did quote it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture

[akho → deafpolygon]

I thought you somehow differentiate “hacker” and “hacking”, because you are not making sense otherwise.

[anthk → akho]

This. Common Lisp and Emacs' hacker/AI/REPL programming world make Windows' cracking culture a running joke.

[throwawayadvsec → deafpolygon]

Windows is good for getting hacked, unix is good for hacking