• Ooops@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    there is hardly any point of creating malware for a system with such a small user base

    Actually the whole world runs on linux, Windows is mostly the low level consumer end.

    Which makes your argument true for a certain segment of malware (the cheap low tech stuff more akin to scams etc targeting people en mass but expected to have a low return), but not actually for the parts where the money is that justify elaborate malware and hacks.

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      The internet runs on linux.

      (Webservers, some network equipment, monitoring servers, NAS, DNS, … lots of services can be setup and ran for free on linux. ((Companies like free)))