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I recently shut down my last Linux box and I do not run Linux at home anymore. However, I did run various distros of Linux on the desktop from 1999-2022. Prior to that, I ran Minix and OpenBSD on my desktop machines, starting around 1992. So let's say 30 solid years of Linux on my desktops.

I never ever, never once had any security issue. I never had an issue with malware being installed. I never had an issue with external malicious users accessing my system - not even DDOSing my network.

In fact, I have run Windows as well since version 3.1, and DOS before that, and I've never had a virus or malware on Windows, either. Not a single compromise or glitch at all.

Once, I was a guest at a friend's house and I discovered that he had fallen victim to some sort of replicating virus on his Windows 98 system. I was able to manually eradicate it for him, without resorting to commercial anti-virus software.

A few weeks ago, I did discover that my home router had been compromised and some sort of malicious DNS service had been installed on it. So, I must confess to my first-ever home network compromise, albeit an embedded router OS I had little control over.