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The Mac experience is almost identical, except that the App Store has a GUI (although Linux distributions also have those these days, I hear). Apple regularly g

The Mac experience is almost identical, except that the App Store has a GUI (although Linux distributions also have those these days, I hear). Apple regularly gets lots of grief here because people have been suspicious they want to shut down distribution outside of the store. I have my doubts that any Linux distribution is capable of auditing every line of every package they distribute, so I think the relative lack of malware on Linux (and possibly MacOS as well) may not actually be caused the specific method of distribution.

jamieweb 8y ago
> The Mac experience is almost identical I don't agree. If you search for "chrome" or "firefox", you will get a page full of spammy apps that are anything but what you searched for. Linux distributions probably don't audit every single line of code in the packages, however this is code written by trusted developers that is mandated to be open source and distributed through official channels. Getting malware into the package repositories would be very difficult, but it seems that getting a fake Google ad on Bing is very easy, so in my opinion the distribution method makes a big difference.