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5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux today (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Linux is more secure than Windows

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Linux-desktop is less attacked than Windows.

[–] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you kidding? My public facing VMs get ssh brute force attacks like 10 times a minute, that's not counting http attacks, vulnerability scanners, etc etc. all of the internet is running on Linux.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

OK, maybe I'm wrong. Why do you think Linux is more secure than Windows (taking into account user-land issues, mind you)?