If you run programs that you can't trust (for example because the source is unavailable and/or nobody reads it, no one is a gatekeeper of program updates etc), then you are opening yourself to attack because the default unix security model is just as bad as the Windows one. So, I must confess to my first-ever home network compromise, albeit an embedded router OS I had little control over. I was able to manually eradicate it for him, without resorting to commercial anti-virus software.Ī few weeks ago, I did discover that my home router had been compromised and some sort of malicious DNS service had been installed on it. Once, I was a guest at a friend's house and I discovered that he had fallen victim to some sort of replicating virus on his Windows 98 system. Not a single compromise or glitch at all. In fact, I have run Windows as well since version 3.1, and DOS before that, and I've never had a virus or malware on Windows, either. I never had an issue with external malicious users accessing my system - not even DDOSing my network. I never had an issue with malware being installed. I never ever, never once had any security issue. So let's say 30 solid years of Linux on my desktops.

Prior to that, I ran Minix and OpenBSD on my desktop machines, starting around 1992. However, I did run various distros of Linux on the desktop from 1999-2022.

I recently shut down my last Linux box and I do not run Linux at home anymore.

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