But there were many more vulnerabilities or "features" that WhatsApp allowed attackers or governments to get into user data. While I haven't read anything about against Telegram security.
Mostly C because you need to type more C code to do the same with JavaScript, so I suppose most of the logics are using JavaScript.
Plasma desktop has 2% JavaScript (https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop), it's not comparable. 🙂
I'm not an expert, but I suppose as this patch is on the kernel and not on the game, this will still improve any connection your kernel needs to do, like sending telemetry of your anti-cheat engine and other apps that make TCP requests while you are playing online games.
I can't with macOS, even they keybinding makes no sense... it's such a pain and I love Linux too much. About Windows... it at least has an easier way to manage the app windows and minimize and get it back properly, on macOS I need to install third party tools to be able to switch from windows from the same app, and it's really a mess and slower than a built-in grid and windows switch manager. Also, if you are an expert of Windows you can always remove much bloated stuff, there are some high skilled Windows users that know how to clean their Windows OS, the only problem is WSL2 isn't working properly for me, it is limited compared to a decent Linux system and on Linux you can always run Windows apps with wine, so I don't see why I would want to use Windows haha.
My current work forces me to work with Apple (because they are lazy to prepare Linux for working), I have been on Linux for almost 10 years and I really want to quit my Job because of this stupid Apple laptop, it is trash, the DE is stupid, and I have many issues (with settings, login items, alacritty not working... yabai stopped to work without any reason...) that stresses me a lot... So good, I love my work and I still enjoy working, but the macOS is pure trash.
Well, if you are new to Linux, it is better if you just install new distros to try them, I would go to Arch Linux as it's the cleanest distro, I could install multiple DE without issues, but then it's a bit mess of packages, also it's harder to install, you need to type archinstall and understand their options. I have a desktop and laptop and I always use the laptop for testing, if you copy the ~/.config folder, you can restore all your applications settings (just copy the app settings you are using), ~/.mozilla to restore your browser as you had it before the wipe and some more settings are under ~/.local. I also copy my ~/.zshrc because I have a custom prompt, configs, add-ons, alias...
But I still think it's wrong. Linux is the most used because it's open source, anyone can audit it and adapt it to their servers or any infrastructure that can compute, as many libraries like OpenSSH and others that most closed source repositories are using to not re-make them from 0.
those tend to be different attacks than would target random consumer computers
That doesn't mean attacks on Linux are minors, just different kind of attacks, because a user mistake is easier to exploit than a vulnerability in a software/code. That's not about software mistakes that create vulnerabilities, that's a user mistake that install malware.
open source definitely plays a role in Linux security, but it’s minor compared to stuff like market share, user privilege, package management vs just installing random exes, different distros using different packaging systems
This kind of attacks you are saying are actually the "minor" attacks that daily occurs, but normally the most effective, there is a lot of scam, but daily or hourly there are millions or billions of attacks everywhere, or that's what my cybersecurity team at my company showed me, they are 24/7 there to never let any attack penetrate to the organization. Imperva and Cloudflare (for example) are or have powerful firewalls that block many attacks every minute. And you are comparing that to a malware that a user install.
So that's why I am saying, because you can't see them, doesn't mean there aren't attacks.
The Cyber Threat Index is calculated using data gathered from all Imperva sensors across the world including over:
Over 25 monthly PBs (Peta Bytes1015) of network traffic passed through our CDN
30 billions (109) of monthly Web application attacks, across 1 trillion (10¹²) of HTTP requests analyzed by our Web Application Firewall service (Cloud WAF)
Hundreds of monthly application and database vulnerabilities, as processed by our security intelligence aggregation from multiple sources
JavaScript isn't the best language to make a desktop interface in my opinion, it can be very efficient, but you can see in bugs (at least in the past) how bad performance it had, and they needed to re-factor it to replace to C or improve the JavaScript. I'm just laughing and making fun of it using JavaScript, not saying it is slow, Gnome is pretty fast nowadays.
No one said the opposite, while on WhatsApp they had several vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to get the user phone control.
An example: https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/new-whatsapp-bug-couldve-let-attackers.html
But there were many more vulnerabilities or "features" that WhatsApp allowed attackers or governments to get into user data. While I haven't read anything about against Telegram security.