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Discussion on: Why I switched to Linux full time

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Shauna Gordon • Edited

The fact that the author of this article believes that an anti-virus isn't required should really tell you something about its validity as a whole...

Or just their naïveté on this front. They seem to be fairly new to the ecosystem, and the foundational paradigms do make Linux generally more secure than Windows on a default level (and is why Windows adopted some of said paradigms). Where people get caught is that "more secure" does not equate to "bulletproof" (in other words, being more secure than Windows does not negate the need for tools like antivirus software).