@bot I don't use the "globohomo" version of Linux.

I use GNU/Linux-libre, which has the proprietary malware cleaned out and the misfeatures removed (which is probably why it has no funding by massive multinational mega corporations).

I have indeed inspected some of the source and didn't smell any backdoors, plus plenty of other people have read the source as well.

I don't even tend to compile in the virtualization etc kernel modules from the corporations, as my .config is set to include only features I include.

Meanwhile, are you even permitted to look at a single line of the source code of macOS's kernel? That certainly can be trusted!


Even then, Linux is only one part of the OS, the rest is other software like GNU.

GNU doesn't have much funding from mega corporations, most of the funding seems to be from individuals.

When I read the source code of GNU, I'm quite pleased to see how well optimized everything is and how it's all free software.

If anyone was to try to add a misfeature or backdoor to GNU software, it'd soon be found out and removed.


With free software, backdoors and misfeatures don't stick around - the users find them, remove them and release a fixed version.

One example of this is Ubuntu, which contains proprietary malware and also used to have spyware in the search feature - Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre has been released as a replacement of Ubuntu fixing these deficiencies.


As a result, if you fire up wireshark and do a packet dump on the connection for windows and macOS, you will see hundreds to thousands of unsolicited connections to unknown remote servers.

Meanwhile, when I look at a packet dump of my GNU/Linux computers, I see 0 unsolicited connections.