Is Linux more secure than Windows?
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@pathduck: ... or behind it, if they're Dutch...
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77% of computers today run on Windows compared to less than 2% for Linux which would suggest that Windows is relatively secure.
I stopped reading the article after I read that ignorant statement. Popularity has nothing to do with security. What other silly, baseless assumptions does the rest of the article contain?
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how do you define "Secure"?
if it's "can't be tampered with no matter what" then no OS is, even iOS with it's golden cage approach has both ways for users to hurt themselves and actual security holes
if it's "it's extremely unlikely to damage the system without user explicitly letting malware wreck havoc" then all modern end user systems are secure, for IOT, SOHO networking, network attached printers etc. it isn't that good though -
@enc0re: UAC makes it pretty much sudo situation,surely making it a click away instead of password away can have some psychological effect but I don't think it's statistically relevant
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@gwen-dragon: mac is often used by people either naive, having a lot to lose (so likely to pay ransom) or both
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My opinion: Sure is!
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@dbouley: a lot more? yeah, that slowly changes but still needs a decade or two before catching up
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@pathduck So true..But I use nothing called Microsoft..
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@zakius , I do not agree with this, certainly nowadays any OS is relatively safe, but with a difference, Windows is it from experience, being the main target for Viruses and Malware, simply because it is the most used OS. This has led that Windows 10 is currently practically invulnerable and armored like a tank, with a Sandbox system, a very efficient Defender and even armored against RootKits.
Linux and Apple, on the other hand, have rested on their laurels, having little malware dedicated to these OS, but this is changing rapidly, because many servers use these, with the aggravation that they do not have an AV that deserves this name.
Security is therefore very relative, privacy is of course another thing, although it is possible to achieve it also in Windows at a reasonable level with some tricks. -
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@pathduck I've been using Unix/Linux since 1998. and I will never go back to a Winblows product. I liked DOS but Bill Gates screwed that all up.
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FOSS has many advantages, regarding modifications, adaptability and collaborative development, but nothing at all that will have great advantages at the level of the normal user, apart from being mostly free.
Regarding privacy and security, FOSS is neither better nor worse than any other software or OS.
The best example is Chromium itself as it is 100% FOSS, as are be all the APIs from Google, Facebook and others that it includes by default, Firefox is not much better in this regard, also having APIs and ads from Google and Alphabet Inc. which track user activity. -
@gwen-dragon , The OS is more secure with changing the user. Windows is beginner and bum proof, Linux is not.
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@gwen-dragon said in Is Linux more secure than Windows?:
No, BAFH (Bastard Administrators from Hell
How did you know - the BOFH is my hero and mentor!
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