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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

better security for the entire world...

The moment Linux takes over as a dominant desktop/laptop OS we'll start seeing a metric ton of the windows hackers follow suit to attack us. We'll end up in a situation where they'll probably go after some random kernel bugs that nobody else.has found yet or just don't think are critical/exploitable. Or they'll just attack the biggest, most widely used distros, going after people using them and any derivative distro similar enough for their malicious tools to work on it.

In general though, it would be a good thing for Linux to become a lot more prominent in the desktop/laptop market for general users. Especially since I imagine thanks to Linux being open source, people would be able to stop these malicious actors from doing damage much quicker (even though I imagine the majority of normal people switching over would almost never update because they're used to forced updates and not having to do it themselves).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People don't realize this enough.

There will be just as many vulnerabilities found with Linux distros as there are with Windows as soon as there's real interest in finding them.

Not saying we should stop linux adoption or anything, but there's a massive illusion that Linux is more secure. It isn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I mean it might be more secure, it might be less secure, we just can't read through the source for windows, so we won't know until linux is attacked as much as windows. It would (will?) definitely be interesting to find out.