On Thu 20 Aug 2015 at 17:16:13 -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:45:09 -0500 > John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > > the main reason why we needn't worry about it on the desktop is > > that there are so few of us using it that it not worth the criminals' > > time to create it. > > Another is that our systems are not nearly as standardized as those > from Redmont, which makes it more difficult to create something that > will work on most Linux systems.
Your point is a good one, as is John Hasler's. But it really doesn't matter how much malware a user has stacked up in their $HOME as long as the system is safe. The safeness of the system doesn't (or shouldn't) depend on the vagaries of popularity.
