I just said ‘git clone’ to my wife and she slapped me in the face. I’m sorry but for the aforementioned regular users this is nowhere near common.

Agreed about `git clone`, but installing things from the web is one of the expected usages of any system. For regular users. Lots of indie and non-commercial (and even commercial) stuff to download this way.

In Linux, .sh installers are common. GOG games get distributed this way. If your wife still metaphorically slaps you when you mention .sh installers, it's only because she doesn't play games on Linux. She wouldn't know how to use apt either.

I think in the end the truth is that Windows is more targeted by malware because it's more widespread than Linux.

This is giving me flashbacks to my consulting days. The IT people were all forced to call it “JitLabs” and “JitHub” because HR considered git to be offensive.

Are you british? God forbid you used mongoDB

God forbid you edit images, they'd have had a heart attack...

Yeah but I think it's unfair to compare average linux users to average windows users. They're not the same kind of users. Most (desktop) linux users are software engineers

I would guess most of those are tools aimed at developers, who can take that risk if they wish. For most users, almost anything they want is either in official repos, or in Flatpaks, which offer some sandboxing (although I guess a malicious Flatpak could just ask for excessive permissions, like a random apk)

Developers are less common than regular users, but still they are among the "common" users of operating systems, so that use case must be handled. Malware on Windows also gets distributed in tools supposedly for developers, after all.