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This article seems to simply use “iOS shouldn’t be Windows” as a strawman for “iOS must be iOS.” GNU/Linux doesn’t have the garden walls of iOS and yet I someho

This article seems to simply use “iOS shouldn’t be Windows” as a strawman for “iOS must be iOS.” GNU/Linux doesn’t have the garden walls of iOS and yet I somehow don’t feel any need for an antivirus or any of the other Windows problems this blog seems to be erroneously alleging are inherent to freedom-respecting OSs.

abc-xyz 6y ago
Perhaps because targeting Linux users isn’t worth the trouble? It would be trivial to implement malware on Linux (e.g. here’s Valve accidentally deleting people’s home directory https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671). Windows, and increasingly Android, suffers from viruses because they’re valuable targets. If Apple made it possible to install apps from third-party stores or websites then they’d similarly suffer.