I think the issue is that if you use linux you are usually smart enough to not get infected, windows users are the majority and thus get hit more. What is the term for this phenomenon? I know I read the wikipedia page for this phenomenon in the last year.
>I think the issue is that if you use linux you are usually smart enough to not get infected
I think that's an extremely poor assumption. How many people on HN run containers with "docker run"? How many of those users actually went and personally audited those containers before doing a docker run vs. just trusting someone else checked first? I can tell you first hand I've seen dozens of customers do a docker run with a public image on a system attached to an internal network without giving it a second thought.
> How many people on HN run containers with "docker run"?
I'd hazard a guess that a far LESS percentage of linux users do so, than Windows users who would open an exe if their browser told them to and fall for other types of ransomware.
I'd hazard a guess that a far LESS percentage of linux users do so, than Windows users who would open an exe if their browser told them to and fall for other types of ransomware.
> I think the issue is that if you use linux you are usually smart enough to not get infected, windows users are the majority and thus get hit more.
It's been a long time since "using linux" meant you're "smart enough to..." Probably around the time corporate IT departments everywhere realized Linux on x86 was cheaper than Solaris and could still get the job done.
For sure, there are dumb linux users and smart windows users. But the percentage is skewed since you generally don't use linux unless you have a minimum amount of skill; especially on desktop there are WAY more non proficient windows users than non proficient linux users + windows is preinstalled on basically every consumer device.
Also on the desktop the prevailing method of malware infection is probably from downloading .exe files from sketchy sites (or email attachments) and running them. Or from websites exploiting browser bugs to do OS-specific things (though I imagine these sorts of vulns are hard to come by these days).
The vast majority of these are going to be Windows executables and Windows-specific things. Your random malicious website is much more likely to target Windows desktop users than Linux desktop users.
