Yet they fail to understand that safety theater was never the goal but freedom and the avoidance of corporate tyranny was the goal. It was never safe just unpopular. Capitalism gonna capitalism 🤷‍♀️… oh the gipity

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    Linux security has kind of had two things going for it for a long time. Linux kind of had security through obscurity, because even though it’s open source, not many people have used it until recently, so it was more valuable to target Windows systems. Secondly, since Linux is open source, any flaws that malware did exploit to gain a foothold were quickly patched, making the malware useless. So a Linux malware developer would end up developing a piece of malware for a less commonly used system that would get patched faster, making it nearly pointless to do so except against extremely high value targets.

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    Linux is as safe as you configure it to be. There are plenty of tools to help lock down your system, just many distros do not enable them by default because of the trade offs.

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    88,000 lines and written in zig, c and go

    definitely not script kiddies.

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    Pro-tip, don’t run random executable software on your machine without verifying its origins (edit:) or if you do it, at least Virtualize and or Containerize it so the host machine isn’t effected.

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      One of the Ublue devs is working on some things to move on from rpm tree just podman and bootc all the way down

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    Linux was never safe lol. As long as dumb users exist nothing is safe. The greater the adoption the more vectors of attack because people are fucking stupid. I wish humanity as a whole stopped catering to fools. If you get hacked it’s your fault. You’ll soon filter out the duds who don’t deserve to use a computer.