• coldaf@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    You have a point. But Linux Out of the Box always immune to any Windows virus like the meme says. And average Linux guy would still have protections on. But yeah, having a shield dont mean we wont ever get hit.

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      4 hours ago

      The meme does not mention Windows. What protections does the average Linux user has? If you do a basic setup of most desktop distors the only protection you have is password input for sudo…

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      14 hours ago

      forgot to add+ and most Linux malwares are targeting servers. Malwares that targeting casual Linux users are very niche.

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        4 hours ago

        What does “targeting servers” mean for the end result? And I can tell you that most of these malware that target servers will work just fine on a desktop distro and will still do the same damage.