Intel’s had a (mostly) crappy start to the year, thanks to the revelation of Meltdown and Spectre, two major security flaws affecting a wide range of its processors that are present in hundreds of thousands of devices around the world. It’s working to release fixes for them, but Linux creator Linus Torvalds is not impressed by the company’s efforts.

In a public email conversation between him and UK-based Amazon engineer David Woodhouse, Torvalds (pictured above giving the bird to Nvidia) calls the patches, “COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE.”

According to him, the Meltdown patch requires the user to opt in and enable the fix while the computer boots up, when it really should just be enabled automatically. Torvalds believes that this isn’t being turned on by default because it could affect performance benchmark tests and make Intel look bad.

Read full news article on The Next Web