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5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux today (www.zdnet.com)
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[-] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Linux is more secure than Windows

[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Linux-desktop is less attacked than Windows.

[-] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Are you kidding? My public facing VMs get ssh brute force attacks like 10 times a minute, that's not counting http attacks, vulnerability scanners, etc etc. all of the internet is running on Linux.

[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

OK, maybe I'm wrong. Why do you think Linux is more secure than Windows (taking into account user-land issues, mind you)?

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