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Comment by regexorcist

1 day ago

There is plenty of malware for Linux. The difference is that the OS won't install it for you.

I don't like the standard practices for installing software in Linux though. Most Mac or Windows users will go to the publisher's website and download. In Linux, it's often recommended to install via a package manager, possibly not even from an official repo, and especially not in Arch. More ways for the supply chain to get compromised, and it has.

So nobody is installing "monitor drivers" for Linux, but they're probably frantically installing packages trying to fix some random issue.