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I think there's several different underlying causes to Windows feeling more secure (not needing antivirus) these days: 1. Security on desktops has been improve
by safog 7y ago
I think there's several different underlying causes to Windows feeling more secure (not needing antivirus) these days:
1. Security on desktops has been improved quite a bit. You can no longer simply email someone a .exe file that's the equivalent of `sudo rm -rf /` and have it work, multiple levels of safeguards (from the browser, to the email virus scan to windows defender catch it). OS's also simply won't run unsigned binaries anymore unless you force them to which is (maybe?) a good thing.
2. Piracy has been on a downtick, and people seem to be more open to paying for software since App stores made it somewhat more acceptable. Less likelihood that people download sketchy binaries off the internet and run them on their PCs.
3. More hours spent on mobile OSes which are inherently more secure. casual PC usage at home is declining.
- silicon2401 7y agospeaking of this, is there a recommended way to run a windows binary within Ubuntu 18.04? I don't want to dual-boot windows because I read that installing windows after ubuntu isn't recommended, but I don't have experience running a windows environment within Ubuntu either.
- cyberbanjo 7y agoWine is an emulation layer for Win32 on Linux. You can install Windows in a virtual machine if you have enough resources.
- silicon2401 7y agoThank you.
- abtinf 7y ago> Wine is an emulation layer Wine literally stands for “Wine is Not an Emulator”.
- dredmorbius 7y agoOther than Wine, you can run any virtualisation system (qemu, VirtualBox, VMWare, Xen, ...) which will effectively give you a Windows (or other) OS running within your Linux system. It won't have direct local OS access, but files and networking can be shared through most emulation systems, generally as SMB/CFS shares.