I just got a real bad malware on my windows PC and I’m legit considering using Linux as a response. What’s the best into to someone who isn’t a programmer but understands computers relatively well enough?

Wine also mounts your home directory by default so… yeah…

“Well no problem, they can’t run without root privileges!” -/home left the game

And now some normie is going to think that Wine is actually a virus.

Vulnerable to malware Malware compatible

how could it be though? a malware written for windows isn’t the same as one written for linux, even if it got out to your computer it shouldn’t be able to do really anything since it can’t orient itself around an operating system it wasn’t written for

You really don’t think Linux has viruses? I’m confused by this post. Is it an excuse to shit on wine and windows?

I didn’t know malware compatible was a term, oh it’s wonderful! I’m gonna use it on people in real life hehe

I use Nix, so I’ll just reinstall my system if anything really bad ever happens. Sometimes I reinstall just because. My important files are on a delegate drive I have to manually mount, so I’m not too worried.

no matter what os you use you can get viruses on linux and macos the chanche is slimmer because they have a smaller user base. the only way to not get viruses is to use your brain. for those who don’t know there are linux viruses and you can get them if you don’t pay attention

This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.

I haven’t run a Linux machine in years. Has wine improved or was I just not savvy enough to get things to run on it?

Image Transcription: Meme

[Gru, the long-nosed protagonist of the “Despicable Me” franchise, presents to the camera, pointing into the air and smiling. Behind him is a flipchart with text reading:]

And the best part about using Linux: No viruses!

[Still presenting, Gru has his hand in a C shape and his head down as he peers at the gap between his fingers. The text now reads:]

Look at this, a website downloaded a malicious .exe on my machine.

[Gru now has his hands pointing down, fingers splayed, still presenting. The text now reads:]

*Double Click*

See? Nothing happe…

[Gru looks back to the flipchart in a double-take, his eyes round and wide and his mouth downturned. The text still reads:]

*Wine is launching*

[The Wine logo: a slightly tipped wine glass with red wine sloshing inside it.]

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I feel like, for some weird reason, nobody on lemmy knows how meme templates are supposed to be used.