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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 65228" data-source="post: 694637"><p>Chrome OS is based on Linux. Google haven't made their "own" OS, they just modify the Linux kernel to adapt for their needs. This also means that Android is based on Linux. Of course it isn't identical to the Linux kernel they decide to use, since they will heavily modify it so it is capable of supporting what they need (and remove things they don't happen to want), but they base it on Linux. Windows started using DOS (which they bought from IBM) and then adapted it into MS-DOS, and then they proceeded with the release of Windows NT and continued to develop it since then up to now. Even a majority of hobbyist OS-developers don't make it entirely themselves - they'll usually have assistance from very old articles about OS development, some of which were published around the years 1998-2005 (e.g. OS Wiki, OS Dever, etc.).</p><p></p><p>Linux tends to be more secure than Windows most of the time because the demand of attack for it is lower compared to Windows (more targeting Windows). Linux also has completely different mechanisms of security which makes it more difficult for an attacker used to Windows to adapt to it in a short-period of time. OS X also tends to be more secure for the same reason. They can still both be targeted by both simple and advanced attacks, so don't believe they are invincible to malicious software (and you also have the danger of web-based phishing the same as whilst using Windows).</p><p></p><p>[USER=56349]@Lockdown[/USER] and [USER=32260]@Andy Ful[/USER] are right though in my opinion, Chrome OS is a lot more appropriate for an average home user who needs to do web-surfing and that sort of stuff. You can still work with documents through Google Drive, Microsoft Office/WPS Writer and such software (which is actually a big attack vector thanks to macro's) is not necessary at-all a majority of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 65228, post: 694637"] Chrome OS is based on Linux. Google haven't made their "own" OS, they just modify the Linux kernel to adapt for their needs. This also means that Android is based on Linux. Of course it isn't identical to the Linux kernel they decide to use, since they will heavily modify it so it is capable of supporting what they need (and remove things they don't happen to want), but they base it on Linux. Windows started using DOS (which they bought from IBM) and then adapted it into MS-DOS, and then they proceeded with the release of Windows NT and continued to develop it since then up to now. Even a majority of hobbyist OS-developers don't make it entirely themselves - they'll usually have assistance from very old articles about OS development, some of which were published around the years 1998-2005 (e.g. OS Wiki, OS Dever, etc.). Linux tends to be more secure than Windows most of the time because the demand of attack for it is lower compared to Windows (more targeting Windows). Linux also has completely different mechanisms of security which makes it more difficult for an attacker used to Windows to adapt to it in a short-period of time. OS X also tends to be more secure for the same reason. They can still both be targeted by both simple and advanced attacks, so don't believe they are invincible to malicious software (and you also have the danger of web-based phishing the same as whilst using Windows). [USER=56349]@Lockdown[/USER] and [USER=32260]@Andy Ful[/USER] are right though in my opinion, Chrome OS is a lot more appropriate for an average home user who needs to do web-surfing and that sort of stuff. You can still work with documents through Google Drive, Microsoft Office/WPS Writer and such software (which is actually a big attack vector thanks to macro's) is not necessary at-all a majority of the time. [/QUOTE]
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