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GiveMeACommentVasily 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes. Your OS runs on ring 0. It literally doesn't matter what you have installed as MINIX controls it all and it's pre-kernel. It's the dude (MINIX) playing the dude (your hardware) disguised as another dude (your OS and all other software). To quote Meek Mill, "There's levels to this shit."

I should clarify, when I refer to MINIX I mean that and/or other microcodes interacting at, effectively, the silicon level.

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GiveMeACommentVasily 3 points ago +3 / -0

Switching OSs will do nothing - MINIX is an operating system with full hardware control operating on ring -3 (the MINIX OS operates on the chip level/its own CPU and you as a user have zero access to it). Operating on ring -3 means MINIX has total and complete access to the entirety of your computer. Even if your computer is “off” but has access to a power source, MINIX can access/change/do whatever with your computers’ settings. Hell it even has its own web server. Just think about what that means - a completely hidden way of communicating online that has 100% access to every single thing on a computer. It’s a privacy/security nightmare.

MINIX is easily the world’s most populous OS and the grand majority of people have zero idea it exists.