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The typical Linux gardens have caretakers with backgrounds in navy seals and are fully capable of protecting their gardens without gates. The average iOS and A

• flukus 8y ago
  You're looking at the current state and not the model itself. > The average iOS and Android users don't even know they are in a garden, much less know how to protect it. If you took those same users and put them on the linux equivalent (ignoring other practicalities) the same will be true, any software they want will be coming from the ubuntu software center or something equivalent and they wouldn't have to protect themselves. Yet they'd still have the freedom to get software from other sources if they wished. Corporate users could build their own repository and have software installed from there without involving anyone else. Windows didn't have such a malware problem because they gave users the freedom, it was because downloading installers from websites was the default way to install software. Without this history windows could be (I don't know how trusted the windows store should be) in the same position as linux today, with users trained to install what they want from the store but still able to go around it. The apple desktop is in basically the same situation as windows. Android isn't a walled garden, you can install apps from elsewhere. Unfortunately the play store isn't a trustworthy source of software like apple store or a linux repository, all sorts of crap ends up there. Google even generates a per device Id to help software track you.