With the recent windows 10 EoL news, I was able to move my dad over to Linux mint. But he does a lot of finance stuff. Long ago, Linux had a belief that desktop Linux are not the primary target for crackers but I don’t believe that true anymore since it’s getting significantly popular lately like Europe government migration over to Linux and Libreoffice.

My question would be , given my dad is just as careful on Linux as he has been on windows, would it be fine to do finance like banking and trading (not the fastest kind )?

If not, what would be your distro of choice for that? Even browsers (I installed Firefox and Edge from Microsoft website deb file)

  • rhabarba@feddit.org
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    16 hours ago

    There is malware attacking servers running Linux but I doubt that many of those would work on desktop Linux.

    Linux kernel malware works just well on desktop Linux kernels, and that’s the majority of Linux malware.

    The comments you posted here seem more like paranoia to me

    Honestly, when it comes to computer security, “paranoia” is a harsh word for being aware of possible risks. (It’s been 12 years “since Snowden”, and people have already forgot, it seems.) Even Windows desktops are not under constant attack, but still there are reasons to maybe take security measurements on them before you can call them “secure”. And that applies just as well to Linux.