Yeah because we’ve never seen windows or linux users have to perform crazy workarounds right.

Users should not put up with this kind of thing, no matter what OS. Forced updates, online startup checks...all unacceptable in my opinion.

Imagine no car or train in the region starting because of a server outage. People would riot on the streets. But for some reason in the IT world this kind of crap is marketed as a feature.

I agree! I would love that.

However... Where can I buy a computer free of all of those issues?

Linux? At least then it's your fault when it breaks.

It doesn't have this particular failure mode, at least.

Do you know of a Wireshark filter that will reveal this on Ubuntu? What you're saying doesn't sound credible, but to incentivize, here's the bet:

If you can provide a Wireshark filter that will show a certificate check on a vanilla Ubuntu 20.04 system when the following commands are executed in a bash shell, then I will donate $25 to a charity of your choice. Commands follow:

    cat <<HEREDOC >/tmp/file.c
    #include <stdio.h>

    int main() {
      printf("Hello World");
      return 0;
    }
    HEREDOC
    gcc /tmp/file.c -o /tmp/app
    /tmp/app

I'm sure Linux (the kernel) does not. I don't know of any Linux distro that does, but, I'd be curious if you can point to specifics.

If you could point to any documentation of Windows performing app-start OCSP checks, I'd love to learn more (and recant my earlier statement).

That's a rather extraordinary claim. It's really setting off my BS meter- Can you show us where the code is to do that in the Linux kernel?

No, Linux does not.

Linux does provide application-level and per-application security, as well as sandboxes, but they exist to help the user and the user has complete control over them and their system.

I assure you my Linux machines do not.

The comment you are replying to states other OS' do not have this failure mode so your response is quite the non-sequitur, nevermind of questionable veracity (linux).