My main worry with Linux becoming more popular is that it will be attacked with more malware and viruses. I wouldn't mind though if Linux programmers could come up with better protection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Linux-based OSes are less uniform than Windows. They could and probably will be targeted, but exploits won't spread because of how many verities they are and how different and incompatible they can be. Some, for example, don't even use the GNU utils and userland.

[–] gens 3 points 16 hours ago

That is mostly false. Most of the code that faces the network is the same. As is most of the background running code. Linux is still more secure.

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