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[–] midnight@kbin.social 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No it won't. The beauty of Linux is that it can transform completely to fit your needs.

Making Linux more noob friendly isn't going to take away my custom terminal-centric tiling wm arch install.

More users = more developers = more options. Linux is already awesome, but growing will only bring more good.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Growing will also bring an increased attack surface and justification for writing malware for Linux due to market adoption.

It's not all good, there is going to be an increased security vulnerability along with it.

[–] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And so will there be more people to look into and fix the vulnerabilities, specially if we can foster a bigger community of open source developers by being a healthier community overall.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

That is less likely though. Nerds who like developing FOSS for hobbyist and ideological needs are already doing so and more users will likely only increase normal users into linux, not developers usually