Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  does that mean we’ll need to start worrying about viruses on Linux now?

  1. Linux is still a very small marketshare on workstations.
  2. Pretty much every server runs Linux and is probably much more likely to be attacked than a workstation.
  3. Lots of very profitable companies that run these servers need high security, so they will invest as much as is strictly necessary.
  4. Everything is open source and auditable by anyone.

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  • Cricket@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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