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The Android app store?

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VLM 12y ago
More like android f-droid store. Its mostly a windows problem. I haven't seen malware from .debian.org or more recently .freebsd.org.
- richardwhiuk 12y ago
  That's due to the much smaller install base. As soon as you get any commercial software on linux, you break outside the package manager and start getting closer to crapware (see graphics drivers installation process which is normally 'download this shell file and execute it as root').
  - relaytheurgency 12y ago
    At that level (you're using linux, know what 'root' is, how to access root and how to execute a shell file as root) you're being lazy if something like that bites you in the ass.
    - VLM 12y ago
      Also its possible to screw up a system that way, but its easier / lazier to just install the wrapper package that takes care of everything including dependencies. So on freebsd, pkg install nvidia-driver, or on legacy linux apt-get install nvidia-driver and you're all done. Someone looking for trouble could do it the hard and dangerous way, but why? Also commercial software other than possibly games, is dead man walking and is dead on FOSS platforms. Sure, go ahead, pretend its the 80s and try to charge me money for an editor, or a compiler, or pretend its the 90s and try to charge me for a web browser or a database, its just not happening.
      - ansgri 12y ago
        ... and try to charge me money for an editor ... OK, make an editor that great as Sublime Text, put a msgbox that I really should pay $60 for multi-PC license, and be done with it.
      - richardwhiuk 12y ago
        freebsd or "legacy linux" "commercial software ... is dead man walking" </troll>
    - TeMPOraL 12y ago
      Which leads us back to the real reason why you don't get malware on Linux - because non-tech-savvy people don't use it. If ever, say, Ubuntu reaches popularity levels comparable to Windows among general population, you'll be seeing tons of toolbars there as well.
      - _lce0 12y ago
        well actually Ubuntu bundled spyware https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do Ubuntu uses the information about searches to show the user ads to buy various things from Amazon. Amazon commits many wrongs (see http://stallman.org/amazon.html); by promoting Amazon, Canonical contributes to them. However, the ads are not the core of the problem. The main issue is the spying. Canonical says it does not tell Amazon who searched for what. However, it is just as bad for Canonical to collect your personal information as it would have been for Amazon to collect it. More info, plus a script to fix: https://fixubuntu.com/ https://fixubuntu.com/
    - duaneb 12y ago
      > you're being lazy if something like that bites you in the ass. I mean maybe—it's not like you have the option to analyze or debug what you're running. You can't predict everything that can go wrong, even if you know the rest of your system top to bottom.

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VLM 12y ago

More like android f-droid store. Its mostly a windows problem. I haven't seen malware from .debian.org or more recently .freebsd.org.

richardwhiuk 12y ago
That's due to the much smaller install base. As soon as you get any commercial software on linux, you break outside the package manager and start getting closer to crapware (see graphics drivers installation process which is normally 'download this shell file and execute it as root').
- relaytheurgency 12y ago
  At that level (you're using linux, know what 'root' is, how to access root and how to execute a shell file as root) you're being lazy if something like that bites you in the ass.
  - VLM 12y ago
    Also its possible to screw up a system that way, but its easier / lazier to just install the wrapper package that takes care of everything including dependencies. So on freebsd, pkg install nvidia-driver, or on legacy linux apt-get install nvidia-driver and you're all done. Someone looking for trouble could do it the hard and dangerous way, but why? Also commercial software other than possibly games, is dead man walking and is dead on FOSS platforms. Sure, go ahead, pretend its the 80s and try to charge me money for an editor, or a compiler, or pretend its the 90s and try to charge me for a web browser or a database, its just not happening.
    - ansgri 12y ago
      ... and try to charge me money for an editor ... OK, make an editor that great as Sublime Text, put a msgbox that I really should pay $60 for multi-PC license, and be done with it.
    - richardwhiuk 12y ago
      freebsd or "legacy linux" "commercial software ... is dead man walking" </troll>
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    Which leads us back to the real reason why you don't get malware on Linux - because non-tech-savvy people don't use it. If ever, say, Ubuntu reaches popularity levels comparable to Windows among general population, you'll be seeing tons of toolbars there as well.
    - _lce0 12y ago
      well actually Ubuntu bundled spyware https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do Ubuntu uses the information about searches to show the user ads to buy various things from Amazon. Amazon commits many wrongs (see http://stallman.org/amazon.html); by promoting Amazon, Canonical contributes to them. However, the ads are not the core of the problem. The main issue is the spying. Canonical says it does not tell Amazon who searched for what. However, it is just as bad for Canonical to collect your personal information as it would have been for Amazon to collect it. More info, plus a script to fix: https://fixubuntu.com/ https://fixubuntu.com/
  - duaneb 12y ago
    > you're being lazy if something like that bites you in the ass. I mean maybe—it's not like you have the option to analyze or debug what you're running. You can't predict everything that can go wrong, even if you know the rest of your system top to bottom.