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About the malware thing. Won't the Linux use increasing in organizations give incentive for attackers to make malwares targeting linux? It's not like we're malware free, it's just that average user is informed enough and there is low use of linux making it not worth as much to target desktop users.
Sure. For a while tho, it would be easier to avoid sweeping ransomware incidents.