Master said:
what do you think about antivirus?
Let me share with you my opinion about antivirus software: No antivirus software is needed when the operating system is designed correctly. What I mean is that no real antivirus software exists for Linux and the BSDs, as they are secure on their own. On the other hand, windows system's design is very poor in an intentional way, as Microsoft needs to make profit from that. Windows always breaks on its own or due to malware, they have always had NSA backdoors, so when you have problems, you either pay for their assistance or you pay a local computer assistance shop to fix your computer.
Now Linux is getting more and more users that come from windows, so software houses are pushing their "antivirus" for linux as well, not because there are viruses, but because these users are used to have an antivirus installed on their computers.
On windows, when you need a program, you search for it on google, visit some websites, then download and execute the .exe file. That's mostly how people get viruses, and that's the procedure you do for every single program you want to install on your computer.
On Linux you have repositories where all the software is available, you download from these repos directly without googling around. You do this either using the software center program or by using the terminal. Programs in these repos are verified and managed by volunteers, so the risk of getting malware is near zero. The only real way you can get malware on linux is to download software binaries from untrusted source - such as googling for it online and then download stuff, not using the repository system. Anyway even if you do that, the malware only have your user's permission, does not fuck up the whole system as it has no administrator (root) power, as opposite of windows.
Android is a mess. Not even going to write about it lol, it is as bad as windows. It does not mean anything that it has Linux kernel in it.
Master said:
Thanks for the link, it is really worrying the situation with Windows.
You're welcome, by the way