Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US
hobovision@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I’m confused, did it SMASH or did it crawl?
If I’m following the article right, it crawled from 2013 to 2021, and smashed at some point between February and June 2025.
What I want to know is, with Linux increasing in market share, does that mean we’ll need to start worrying about viruses on Linux now?
does that mean we’ll need to start worrying about viruses on Linux now?
As much as I’m pro-Linux and anti-Microsoft and anti-Apple, I have to say that I don’t think comparing desktop use to server use is appropriate when it comes to security. I don’t think server use of any OS translates to desktop use in terms of security at all. If nothing else, the end user is a major difference between the two. End users download, install, run, and interact with all kinds of random software, websites, etc. without thinking and this is the main source of desktop malware. The same is not the case for servers.
You should always be worried about viruses on all your devices. Assuming your OS won’t get a virus because it’s obscure is literally security by obscurity, which should never be your plan A.
It ate Bill Gate’s lunch!
It clawed too 💅
pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 3 weeks ago
It SLAMMED
yuri@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
this linux fucks