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If it's all so perfect why this discussion has over two hundreds comments at least a half of which share the sentiment? Secondly, if it's pointless, why did you even (try to) read it? Pass o…

Explained in the comments below the article.

> mostly low-SNR opinionated junk Care to expand on that? The poll under the article kinda proves the opposite.

Windows 7 has long been unsupported, Windows 8.1 support has recently been dropped by most OEMs as well since Microsoft has deprecated Windows 8.1 earlier than expected. Four years ago anything you bo…

> "Download the latest version." Yeah, and if you're running something like Debian 11, CentOS or Ubuntu LTS the answer will be, "Go compile the latest kernel".

> Check if your hardware supports your OS before you buy it. Guess what? Then it all works great. What a waste of time. Ever opened bugzilla.kernel.org? Ever seen the number of regressions? In the …

> This is not equally true for all of the file systems named and for all of mass storage media. For quite a few of these combinations, Linux actually has the best solution available. Some of these …

> The amount of actual errors or conceptual misunderstandings in it is so numerous and overwhelming it is difficult to respond with anything other than exhaustive blow-by-blow refutation. Normally …

Plus a million. As for MacOS, yeah, it's truly great but the hw is quite expensive and limited to what Apple sells to you. And then Apple deprecates older devices all the time and you're lef…

> And I think the problems in 2021 are mostly the same as they have always been: caused by vendors. Fewer than 5% of the issues listed in the article have anything to do with HW vendors, while the …

Windows has DXVA which has been standardized for over a decade. Linux still cannot settle on a single universal API which works regardless of a graphics system or various underlying drivers. In short …

That's not what I could call "working". Most people out there will simply never use such a "solution".

You could email him or leave comments under the article. All valid criticism has been addressed and the article keeps being updated. It's its 500th revision or something like that.

> The Wayland section is also perhaps the most technically inaccurate of the post The author is open to valid criticism and updates the article whenever someone points inaccuracies or falsehoods. Y…

Let's be honest - since the removal of XUL addons, all my add-ons have been working just fine. Let's stop repeating this ... thing - it's long lost its relevance and nowadays it's …

> Overall, if Linux security issues cannot be solved systematically, then I really doubt they could be solved with an antivirus. No one is arguing with that but a native AV for Linux could potentia…

Noticed a popup "Malware has been disinfected" and the bad files were automatically moved to a quarantine. Don't remember the AV which was used.

While all these issues have taken place, AV vendors have solved them and nowadays it's safer to have them running when you need to work with the software you download from the net. If you run not…

Free or not-free - there are none at the moment. ClamAV last time I checked missed over 30% of in the wild malware which renders it pretty much useless. AV-Comparatives and VBulletin have long stopped…

> The problem is, Linux antivirus does not really exist. That's true unfortunately. AV vendors have server solutions (i.e. without UI) for Linux but those scan mostly for Windows/MS Offic…

My friends sometimes have to download odd software from the net and their AV's have helped them avoid disasters.

> Unpopular opinion perhaps, but I think desktop operating systems need to start including robust sandboxing and permission systems that are turned on by default. Very much welcomed but both Window…

> Are there any anti virus for Linux that does that heuristic type scanning that you see on windows? Next to none.

> The idea that to fix a security issue you should install an additional program which "increases" security is dubious. For some reasons it often works for Windows and MacOS, why wouldn&#…

> There is a chance that true behavior based analysis can provide hints towards compromise and all the BPF tooling around that makes it a potentially promising lead, but no anti-virus I'm awar…

First the two Gmail accounts I had in Thunderbird logged me out and asked to relogin. Then Google said my accounts did NOT exist which made me feel very uneasy. Banned? Lost all my data? OMG. Then I g…

> Linux runs better on both new and older hardware. This is very much debatable. What's true however is that if your HW is not supported by at least Windows 8.1 you're SoL. > Better a…

The list is so convoluted while it doesn't touch on real Windows issues at all. Wow. And it often talks about issues which have been resolved, or haven't been relevant in ages, or are not a …

Such a long comment and again what's your use case exactly? When do you need files e.g. named O.txt and o.txt in the same directory? Won't you yourself be confused by them? It's the sim…