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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
It's not 1995 any longer. All that stuff is FUD. The reason you might hear about malware on Windows is because that is what everyone uses. Mac and even Linux do have malware. You just hear about it less because it impacts far fewer people. Same goes for updates breaking things and everything else you mentioned.
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I wish that was true. If it was I wouldn't have to fix my wife's computers when an update causes problems. Usually now the problems are smaller than they used to be, but still there — something hangs in the update and I have to "prod it" to get it to complete. Until I do, the computer crawls. And the two times when I had to completely rebuild her desktop she was using Windows 10, not Windows from 1995.
I've never had any kind of malware on Linux in the 16 years I've used it exclusively (actually never before that). Windows has other issues, other than malware. Apparently Defender, itself (for example), is causing slow downs on Intel based computers. A bug of some kind.
https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-defe...on-intel-cpus/
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Your average user running Windows 10 or 11 will never have a malware issue, same as your average Mac or Linux user.
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I don't know what an average "Windows user" is, but I do know that I've had to try to recover Windows machines that were infested with malware, but never once had to do so with a Linux machine. But I think you're right that this is more in the past than it is a current issue. With Linux it NEVER was an issue.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I tried Wine with K4PC 1.17, tried letting Wine Tricks install 1.16 and tried Play on Linux. None worked for me, but on all my Windows PCs, it is a set it and forget it thing.
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K4PC 1.17 installs fine in Linux under Wine, it just won't connect. I would say it's more likely something Amazon has done to keep it from connecting than it is an issue with Wine. But, as you say, K4PC is a Windows program, not a native Linux application. For me it's not worth using Windows so I can use a small niche' program like K4PC.