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Agreed about `git clone`, but installing things from the web is one of the expected usages of any system. For regular users. Lots of indie and non-commercial (a
by the_af 3y ago
Agreed about `git clone`, but installing things from the web is one of the expected usages of any system. For regular users. Lots of indie and non-commercial (and even commercial) stuff to download this way.
In Linux, .sh installers are common. GOG games get distributed this way. If your wife still metaphorically slaps you when you mention .sh installers, it's only because she doesn't play games on Linux. She wouldn't know how to use apt either.
I think in the end the truth is that Windows is more targeted by malware because it's more widespread than Linux.