Re:Windows is the malware compatibility layer for everything
by the_af on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:32PM
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Yeah, I'm nodding in agreement with you.
I'm surprised by some of the answers I'm getting -- and I'm both a Linux fan and an almost exclusive user for the past 20 years. Yet I don't delude myself about the ton of crap I download in order to get things to be the way I want. Sometimes it's Steam, sometimes it's GOG, sometimes it's the official repo, sometimes it's a PPA, sometimes it's just random stuff on the web.
And yes -- downloading stuff from the web is how it's supposed to be used. Have people really changed so much that this is now frowned upon?
In any case, I still think we're "safe" because malware authors don't think it's worth their time to target Linux.
I'm surprised by some of the answers I'm getting -- and I'm both a Linux fan and an almost exclusive user for the past 20 years. Yet I don't delude myself about the ton of crap I download in order to get things to be the way I want. Sometimes it's Steam, sometimes it's GOG, sometimes it's the official repo, sometimes it's a PPA, sometimes it's just random stuff on the web.
And yes -- downloading stuff from the web is how it's supposed to be used. Have people really changed so much that this is now frowned upon?
In any case, I still think we're "safe" because malware authors don't think it's worth their time to target Linux.