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Exactly. Neckbeards love to pretend open source magically has no security vulnerabilities, and that the ability to inspect the source means you'll never install anything nefarious.
I expect all of them to have read the source for every single package they've ever installed. Oh and the Linux source too, of course
I have never seen anyone make that claim.
Lots of arguments saying it's an improvement, but never that it magically fixes everything.
Yes, opensource doesn't magically fix all vulnerabilities. But it is for sure way better then closed source, where you don't have a way of auditing the code
Who does? Feels like you're just talking about inexperienced "btw i use arch" kinda skiddies
Another classic lie. 'Open source' misses the point of libre software. Anti-libre software [malware] bans us [everyone else] from removing malicious source code.