Oh no, there is no victory. Your summary is pretty good here. But the idea that Linux is provably less secure because old bugs were found is flatly wrong. They were found late, but they were indeed found. How many ancient bugs are lurking in proprietary software that nobody has found for positive reasons and made full disclosures of so affected parties know they need to mitigate? Nobody knows!

Server OSes are more likely to have older versions of software and then backport fixes. Desktop OSes are more likely to default to doing automatic updates, or at least hassling the user to do them.

The only difference is that servers are more likely to have more outdated software.

Love of convenience, I guess. I often find it astonishing myself. The software might do 100 times more but it takes 1000 times as much memory...

In many countries including the UK, speed camera locations are public knowledge, the locations are published and there aren't that many mobile cameras (and they're housed in giant Transit vans). I don't bother with anything like Waze simply because the cameras are bright yellow boxes on the top of poles or huge transit vans with police markings. You can spot them a mile away and if you cant, you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive.

I figured out years ago that what the far right claims the other side is going to do (or doing) is exactly what they intend to do.

The correct answer is to lie.

Give them the figure you want, not the figure you have.

It's not like they can check (legally, at least in most countries).

Also, "my current role is WFH, so if this role requires any travel I'll need at least a £10,000 increase".

Linux underpins the internet. It's the primary server OS on the planet. High-value data is held on Linux systems. The idea that it's not profitable to attack those targets is silly. They're harder to attack. People still do it. That's why there are still ssh port scans for example.

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

It is, but IME a lot of software needs architectural changes to work on it, similar to when you're trying to build software for Windows in cygwin. That's one reason I decided it wasn't worth the hassle back when I was running it.

When it comes to being allowed to do what you want with your computer, it's a lot more like Windows than it is like Linux. And it's been getting worse.

Now tell us how many similar bugs are in Windows, and will be found even without the obscurity of closed source. You don't know, because you depend on Microsoft to tell you when they fuck up, but you're declaring this a victory for Microsoft anyway? Do fucking tell.

No, 2MB was never enough for a Linux desktop. I had 8MB on my 386 and it was only just sufficient.

30 years ago was 1926?

"On the other side are those who routinely outsource their critical thinking to what they see as an all-knowing machine"

I've run into these people, they're the worst. It was bad enough dealing with people whose mindset was 'If I cant find it on google then it doesn't exist,' and it seems these people have moved into AI and gotten dumber but think they're even smarter.

You're repeating false propaganda. Iran was in compliance with the Nuclear nonproliferation treaty as well as the JCPOA. Iran never talked about "exterminating the Jews" and instead talked about regime change for the oppressive Israeli regime, unless you think Israel talking about the same kind of "regime change" for Iran means mass extermination.