With the increase popularity of the linux desktop and the steamdeck, will new viruses and malwares be developed for linux systems? should we better use an antivirus?
With the increase popularity of the linux desktop and the steamdeck, will new viruses and malwares be developed for linux systems? should we better use an antivirus?
Just have to remember which repos are “managed” and which are not. Installing stuff from PyPi or NPM might actually require you to read through quite a lot of code before installing. I don’t think most people are that diligent.
yup, that’s why i avoid it like the plague.
It’s .deb’s and .rpm’s all the way down.
And sometimes flatpaks. And sometimes AppImages.
But never pips, gems or any of that sort of …