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> Given all the crap that Windows users put up with, be it malware or system updates randomly breaking things, I think a fair amount of people might find it wor
by watermelon0 5y ago
> Given all the crap that Windows users put up with, be it malware or system updates randomly breaking things, I think a fair amount of people might find it worth the effort to give Linux a try.
System updates don't break things on Linux?
The only reason malware is not more popular is because Linux is less attractive platform to target due to low market share for desktop users, not because it's actually more secure. Same goes for macOS.
- krylon 5y agoI agree with you 100% on the malware part. If Linux got a share of, say, 30% on the desktop, things would start looking quite different, I am sure. Updates... well, there's updates and there's upgrades. On Debian and CentOS, I have never encountered any trouble with updates. You pay the price by using software that is usually rather dated, but in my experience, once it works, it keeps working. On rolling-release systems, where there is no clear distinction between updates and upgrades, I have encountered plenty of trouble on Gentoo and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Arch Linux, I'm told, is rock-solid, but I guess once you manage to actually install it, nothing scares you anymore. ;-) (Just kidding, I know that Arch has an actual installer by now. But until fairly recently, installing Arch made the OpenBSD installer look almost decadent.) (Also, to be fair, I was on Gentoo's unstable branch, so in a way, I was kind of asking for trouble.)