Same for people using windows 7
Regardless of us using Linux on our home computers, most businesses and services use Windows machines. Your information is likely still stored on Windows machines elsewhere if you interact with the world at all.
With that in mind, it's worth being aware of Windows security problems when they come up.
What would we do when these happen? What could we do in the moment to change anything?
Join an eventual class action?
That's the big "what if" that hangs over everything isn't it?
Taking the internet into consideration, I would doubt "most".
You'd be surprised. For medical info a lot of that is going to be sorted in windows servers running as either file or sql servers.
There's absolutely zero need to mention any other OS than Windows if the article is about Windows.
I guarantee you that 2025 will not be the year of the Linux desktop, just like 2024 wasn't, and just like 2023 wasn't, just like 2022 wasn't...
Signed,
Linux users that aren't annoying and aren't driving people away from using Linux with their self-righteous smugness.
Been using linux on my desktop since 1999. Don't need an official declaration.
i don't see how this is annoying when it is literally posted to a community called "linuxmemes"
Nah, 2025 is the year of the Linux on the desktop.
we're sure of it this time!
/s
I mean, I've been hearing it for 15 years, we can't be wrong for that long, right? Which means that next year it's 100%!
Yeah, I also think with just so few alternatives, just by pure chance alone this should already very probably be the year of Linux on desktop
Hey don't give up on 2024 yet
Would it even be a good thing if Linux became super main stream? Maybe we should be careful what we wish for.
How would it be bad? More hardware support, more users not feeding data to corporations, more software support and so on.
This is just a meme in a linuxmemes community. There is no need to be offended.
Im sure by next december arch will have 51% of desktop os market share.
It's really sad that this needs to be said. I 100% agree with the sentiment. The reason I use Linux is because most of my work requires Linux, but I resisted it for a really long time because communities like these are just incredibly toxic and insufferable. Sometimes looking at this community makes me want to rage-boot Windows and become a C# dev all over again.
It's a meme in a linux meme community. You need help lol.
~~In this case I actually mainly meant MacOS, which has a relatively big market share.~~ Though for me personally it’s Linux, it applies to all other operating systems, with MacOS being the one large enough that people who use windows can’t ignore it. I’m not a fan of these “here’s what you need to know” titles because it doesn’t add anything, the title would be functionally the same without it. I was making fun of this by saying that I don’t need to know this and thus showing that (this part of) the title is only included to get more clicks
I actually mainly meant MacOS
Maybe I'm just dumb or something, but you're really burying the lede on this MacOS angle by having your meme say "Me with linux"
You are not annoying?
Sometimes Mint tells me there are security updates available. Happened just this morning. Updating makes me feel good :)
And I can do it wherever I want. And my work is in no way interrupted, while the updates go through.
People here running *nix OSes while I run a Nix*OS
I mean... a form of Microsoft Defender is available for Linux, but only for enterprise customers if I remember correctly 😅
Bootkitty?
However,
you can already patch your BIOS to become secure again! :)
All in all, Windows security is a joke compared to Linux's.
Windows security is... fine? It could be better, but it's pretty much on par with linux security. Both have their vulns, but they're both also able to be secured enough that most (if not all) major data breaches are via phishing or other social engineering attacks, not solely software exploits. There's lots of fodder for the Linux vs. M$ debate, but this one is maybe a bit out of date.
If you actually dig deeper into the Linux security topic, you'd find out that Linux is actually not very secure. GrapheneOS developers made quite a lot of posts on what Linux distros (and the kernel) are missing in terms of security. A lot of "Linux security and the lack of viruses" rides on the waves of "there is hardly any point of creating malware for a system with such a small user base, plus you have to consider the fact that people knowledgeable enough just to install a Linux distro would be a bit more careful about their computers than the average Joe".
there is hardly any point of creating malware for a system with such a small user base
Actually the whole world runs on linux, Windows is mostly the low level consumer end.
Which makes your argument true for a certain segment of malware (the cheap low tech stuff more akin to scams etc targeting people en mass but expected to have a low return), but not actually for the parts where the money is that justify elaborate malware and hacks.
The internet runs on linux.
(Webservers, some network equipment, monitoring servers, NAS, DNS, ... lots of services can be setup and ran for free on linux. ((Companies like free)))
A lot of companies stuff also runs on linux when it's not free, just so they can avoid having to manage the hardware side... see: Google Cloud, AWS, Azure etc.
The amount of companies having their whole infrastructure run by one of the big cloud services on linux servers nowadays is far too high to make a serious argument of "linux is only secure because it's irrelevant and no one cares to break it".
Is not having an anti-virus good for most people though?
most antivirus apps are very invasive, heavy on resources and even spy on you. Windows defender is usually enough. However, virustotal is still recommended
Anti-virus is not going to stop you from stupidity. You classic "Anti-virus" won't stop anything more than run of the mill simple stuff.
Most of the time that's what people need an antivirus for, most attacks the average person will suffer will be some script that's easily caught by the antivirus.
If the script doesn't have permission to do anything it doesn't matter. See Android as an example.
On one side, if you have a brain you're fine.
On the other side, *glances at general public typing google.com into google* ...yeah
Hint: :q!
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