Personally I think virus makers just go out for windows because is a much higher market share, and more every day end user. Also the way Win is designed with UAC it can become very annoying and a lot of people disable it. Secondly most linux users are super users so they know when not to click on an unknown binary or script. All and all if you're not running root which you shouldn't, you should be pretty safe in linux unless someone is actively attacking you.
Yes, but most of the end user softwares for linux are free and opensource so, there are no chances that contributers would intentionally put viruses into it. With the help of a large community there are authentic and secure softwares and installation guides available, which reduces the chance of users installing malware. Whereas in windows, users are lured into installing viruses, with title of free - cracked, hacked softwares.
Being open-source and freely available, Linux Softwares are continuously being examined and maintained by community of developers, with greater intentions of providing quality and help themselves and solving wide range of problems. Viruses usually come into being with softwares that are not free, but somehow the hackers crack it and share it for free, at cost of security.
I highly suggest not to use it on a VM though, because the power of manjaro, the workflows aren't simply matched when you run it on a VM, I'm forced to use VM temporarily at work and I hate myself every single day for that (but within a week, I'll have my sweet sweet desktop, with my choosing of OS)
Manjaro I must tell you is AMAZING, it did some heavy lifting from Arch and if advance learning is your goal, I would recommend Arch instead.
Manjaro with KDE looks really good, performs really well, and has a good support as well, the package manager is awesome, and best of everything: it's freaking fast. Get this: i7 about 5 years ago, 16 Gigs of RAM, and 250GB SSD. i7 I think might have been less than 9th gen though, I'm not entirely sure. I installed Manjaro and was excited to see what time will be it's boot time. It was 2 seconds! Yes, right! 2 seconds, it posted boot (the dell logo thing), then within 2 seconds it asks for my password! Then I give it my password and within another 2 seconds I already have my guake terminal and all some other apps started.
To be honest, there are viruses for Linux, but it doesn't affect us as much :) I'm a big fan of Linux systems.
I'm now an Ubuntu user, manjaro crashed at work once and just wanted to go for something with better support all around.
Yeah I dislike when people say linux or mac doesn't have viruses unixmen.com/meet-linux-viruses/
Personally I think virus makers just go out for windows because is a much higher market share, and more every day end user. Also the way Win is designed with UAC it can become very annoying and a lot of people disable it. Secondly most linux users are super users so they know when not to click on an unknown binary or script. All and all if you're not running root which you shouldn't, you should be pretty safe in linux unless someone is actively attacking you.
All of those are either really tame or really old and fixed years ago
It was just an example that viruses do exist.
Yes, but most of the end user softwares for linux are free and opensource so, there are no chances that contributers would intentionally put viruses into it. With the help of a large community there are authentic and secure softwares and installation guides available, which reduces the chance of users installing malware. Whereas in windows, users are lured into installing viruses, with title of free - cracked, hacked softwares.
Being open-source and freely available, Linux Softwares are continuously being examined and maintained by community of developers, with greater intentions of providing quality and help themselves and solving wide range of problems. Viruses usually come into being with softwares that are not free, but somehow the hackers crack it and share it for free, at cost of security.
I was thinking about trying out Manjaro! I just downloaded the ISO this morning so I could install it on a VM.
What are your thoughts on it?
I highly suggest not to use it on a VM though, because the power of manjaro, the workflows aren't simply matched when you run it on a VM, I'm forced to use VM temporarily at work and I hate myself every single day for that (but within a week, I'll have my sweet sweet desktop, with my choosing of OS)
Manjaro I must tell you is AMAZING, it did some heavy lifting from Arch and if advance learning is your goal, I would recommend Arch instead.
Manjaro with KDE looks really good, performs really well, and has a good support as well, the package manager is awesome, and best of everything: it's freaking fast. Get this: i7 about 5 years ago, 16 Gigs of RAM, and 250GB SSD. i7 I think might have been less than 9th gen though, I'm not entirely sure. I installed Manjaro and was excited to see what time will be it's boot time. It was 2 seconds! Yes, right! 2 seconds, it posted boot (the dell logo thing), then within 2 seconds it asks for my password! Then I give it my password and within another 2 seconds I already have my guake terminal and all some other apps started.
Use instantOS, instantOS.io
It's an arch based blazing fast and lightweight linux Distro with gui installer and comes with its own window manager and desktop environment.