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Linux Virus (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 123 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Isn’t this basically the banana cultivation problem of computing? Linux has pretty good genetic diversity with mutations and speciation happening on the regular, MacOS doesn’t have that variety, but is a genetically engineered abomination that’s regularly gene-edited to patch problems out.

As for Windows, I’d say it’s the Cavendish banana of operating systems.

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  • [–] 62 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I just called Microsoft and their support line confirmed that they are, indeed, a banana.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Sadly enough, the same is applicable for regular programs..

    If it were only this hard for bad stuff, you might have a point, but this also being an issue for good stuff is why linux is such a PITA to use....

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but it makes me feel smart when I get it working even though I'm running off the back of 100s of other users that are actually smart and listed out the steps online.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly that does make you smart, as far as computer users go. Being able to distinguish good advice from malicious advice is something a lot of people can’t do, otherwise those scam sites hawking ‘tools’ (malware) to fix some random windows problem wouldn’t exist.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Though tbf when searching for linux help you're more likely to actually get it, and it may not work or you may have to kinda translate it to your distro, but it's less likely to be that type of malicious tool you speak of on windows.

    Meanwhile those "tools" are either SEOd to hell and back so the only thing that comes up when searching is them instead of some useful stackoverflow page, or windows docs post-w8 themselves tell you to fix every problem by reinstalling.

    Actually that's a BIG reason I finally swapped to linux, for years it had been "but idk how to fix shit like I can on windows" until that tipping point when it became "well at least I can find a fix for linux, windows just keeps saying reinstall and the internet says 'use this totally not sketchy proprietary and sometimes expensive software.'"

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