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Because there's less soft targets of mainstream wealth on Linux desktop...

...and the 0 days are saved for valuable servers and embedded devices

I'm not really sure how a virus that can infect a server wouldn't also target linux desktop unless it's targeting SSH or Ampache or something. It would still have a chance at hitting poorly configured developer machines, and yet people barely experience them

edit: lol at the article

Way to miss the joke.

This was a good test to catch those HN members who don't bother to read the article but decide to argue with the headline.

You can do both!

Busted...I usually do!

Just thought this was a Stallman writeup. To be fair, the titles are usually similar.

Look, if the title is “why GNU/Linux viruses are fairly uncommon”, that’s fair game as a topic. In fact, you should expect that most of the discussion will be about that, rather than the self-deprecatory joke answer. Certainly it was last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20680291.

(Also, my own observation is that it’s regularly far more amusing to take jokes seriously, ignore sarcasm, and otherwise wrest humour.)

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