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[–] rozodru@piefed.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

or a long time, I was platform agnostic and eventually I gave up on antivirus hooping and I realized that if you don’t actually download weird shit or run shit without vetting it, you don’t viruses.

THANK YOU. in my 30+ years of computing I've never run any anti-virus on anything and surprise surprise I've never once had a system crash or corrupted from a virus, trojan, malware, whatever simply because I never downloaded shady shit. I've had people become visibly upset with me because I've said to people "you don't need anti-virus if you're smart about what you're doing" even people in the linux community have called it bullshit. it's not.

it just boggles my mind that people build their entire personality and devote themselves to multi-billion dollar companies like windows or simply platforms like Linux. I use Linux, I don't care if people use Windows and trust me if something went south with Linux or Microsoft massively improved Windows I'd honestly go back to it. I'm a fan of stuff that works. that's it.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Antiviruses also don't solve the problem of hardware failure. You should be backing up important data anyway. If you still some how got a virus, just reformat and restore.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 2 points 5 hours ago

yup that's way more important and easier. I have system configurations backed up to my private git repo, locally on an external drive, and offsite. then for important docs/files/etc both a local and offsite backup. all run via borg.