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Plus, CrowdStrike runs on Linux as well. _This time_ they only crashed Windows devices, but there's no guarantee that switching to Linux would prevent any of it.

You can switch away from CrowdStrike but I doubt you'll be able to convince whoever mandated CS to be installed to not install an alternative that carries exactly the same risks.

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>CrowdStrike runs on Linux as well. _This time_ they only crashed Windows devices, but there's no guarantee that switching to Linux would prevent any of it.

In fact there was a recent CrowdStrike-related crash in RHEL:

https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1cluxzz/crowds...

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083

At least on Linux it runs on eBPF sniffing so the chances of fudging something are lower. There are some supported Linux distributions where they also have a kernel module and there might a higher chance of that exploding.

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