Maybe if enough people didn't buy the MS hype and pushed more companies to endorse Linux this would change.
MS is BS hype you pay for a licensee, now with win 11 a 3 to 4 year old system is e waste, all because ms has tried and tried to secure there OS to no avail ( legal install Yes I know there are back doors to installing it).

Windows will never be more secure than Linux or Mac. Mac is based on Unix with a fancy GUI stuck on it.

Linux is not BS, MS is BS!!!

 

Windows is still targeted more, but Android is targeted even more than Windows in 2025. A large share of the classic, clueless “click-anything” type Windows users from days gone by don’t even use desktop computers anymore. They barely needed them before. Now, they go to work and get hacked there, or at least try their best to. That’s why we still see so many enterprises, meaning, businesses and other larger organizations; end up crypto-locked by ransomware groups.

The largest percentage of actual malware is still delivered by email. It stands to reason that corporate Windows users with constant push from Exchange to their Outlook, GroupWise, or whatever email client are the ones clicking the most frequently.

Linux and Unix systems are targeted more frequently than Macs—but primarily because they represent servers, not “Johnny over in accounting.”

The biggest vulnerability on any system will always be the users; and the newest ones among them. You can’t put the Red Team up against the Baby Blue Team and expect a different result. You have to remember that Mac, Linux, and Unix are far less frequently the targets of hired external penetration testers to audit systems. Most vulnerabilities even found are far beyond what is ever seen in the wild by common users and even small organizations and businesses. They are worst case scenarios.

 

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I can smell something like Microsoft will bring back Windows XP and launch under the name "Windows eXPerience" to stop people switching to another OS.
Not only that, Microsoft will stop adding too much bloatware.
Windows 11 has a short life.

Just have a bit of patience.

 

Do you think Microsoft is very concerned about the negative publicity surrounding them? Their money comes primarily from corporate sales. They also sell advertising in their products very successfully. In the desktop segment, they currently have no competitors. The situation is different, for example, in the field of portable consoles. After their Windows-based Xbox began to lose ground to Linux-based consoles, they started to get off their asses to somehow satisfy potential gamer buyers.

 

That's a wishful prediction but unfortunately not reality. They were stuck keeping the corpse of Vista around for 8 years after everyone knew it was effectively dead. They can't just pull a release. Instead it was waterskiing like Weekend At Bernies for way longer than even they actually wanted. They have lost only 5% market share to MacOS in the past 5 or so years; and that has been mostly driven by cheap and very capable Mac Minis for normal desktop users. They haven't really done anything in reaction to that, so what do you think they are going to do about whatever market share they lose to Linux for desktops? They will notice it, but they've been hearing that same thing for 20 years. How much have they done about it so far?

 

Yes, the distro is called Asahi Linux. I have it as dual boot on my M1 MBP and it's been my production machine for the past two and a half years.

Stable, reliable, absolutely silent. Love it.

Severely limited in terms of native Linux plugins and DAWs compared to standard Linux.

No Wine, so no Windows plugins either. I hadn't used them for years on standard Linux anyway.

Even so, the available firepower is insane, realistically, and especially compared to my analog days, when a lot of good music was made.

What I'm doing is entirely based on software synths and samplers, no singer/songwriter demos with a couple of mics.

So it's been a sort of epiphany, the question everyone has to face sooner or later. How much do I really need?

 

Wow GroupWise that is one from the history books. Yes servers get attacked all the time ( which more are UNix or Linux ) . What people don't understand is that over half the stuff they are running is Linux in there homes. Windows might be running on everyone desktop or laptop. But the sheer numbers of Linux devices are way more.

 

I've done my calculations yesterday, and the only thing that runs Windows in my home (as a dual-boot) is my old Thinkpad lappy with Firewire that I use generally for controlling my TC StudioKonnekt48. and for testing Windows 10 programs and plugins.

Router, Switcher, Access Point, Media Player, Smart Watches, Smart Phones, Desktop, NAS, Laptops (even my MacBook Pro is essentially FreeBSD/Unix), and servers we connect to - all Linux/Unix.

I'll never own a Smart-TV, because I hate TV, and "Smart" TVs are ridden with corporate malware, too, so I just use a little PI computer ("media player") with Debian and Kodi for "TV". Cheap, works great, and does exactly what I want it to do.

p.s. Incidentally, I had to re-install my Debian 12 today, finally. It's because I finally decided to use a GPT partition for booting from my new NVMe (Crucial T500 1TB instead of MX500 M.2 SATA 256GB) and I had it installed on a MBR partition so far. I failed to make it boot from a GPT partition (you have to reinstall GRUB when changing from MBR to GPT bootdisk), but it's not a big deal to reinstall Linux and I had it working and with basic personal adjustments within hours. Still, I'm a bit sad. 11 years... feels like losing an old friend. On the other hand it feels very interesting adjusting the fresh system to look and work like the old one. I forgot heaps of stuff. It feels great refreshing your memory. I'm surprised by how much less I've got to do now as opposed to what I had to do 11 years ago, to make it mine and work for audio properly. It recognised my RME 9652 as soon as I booted the first time and all I had to do is install the RME Mixer for it. wow.

 

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I was a Unix and SUSE admin for 7 years. HP-UX, Solaris, Irix. Great for enterprise but what a ballache for client. At home I prefer Windows and Mac, in that order. I'm grateful that I can work under the hood of Android and Linux devices but I just love Windows. Don't let people tell you you're on the wrong OS. Most Linux advocates are just flexing.