linux isnt immune to viruses even though its not as bad as windows

what should i do to be safe if i have a safe browser, vm, but pirate and download risky things? i know its a vm but i still dont want to have to delete everything in the vm if something happens. also the malware doesnt go to the router and spread rigt???

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    2 months ago

    I’m not blaming Qubes OS, I’m blaming fedora. I know that Qubes OS itself is reputable and reliable. What do you mean with building from source? So you don’t use the default updater?

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      2 months ago

      I’m sorry, I misread. I thought you wrote to not use Qubes. Do you have any sources regarding the stuff about Fedora? I don’t mean to deboonk you, I am genuinely curious and I dislike fedora anyway for being so commercially oriented.

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        2 months ago

        I myself have experienced it. Of course it would be a very big event if something like that came out from a youtuber but I assure you that Im sure of it because of cosmetic changes in fonts and a lot of slow downs

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          2 months ago

          I mean fonts can change due to updates. Let’s say I update KDE, I might break my theming completely.

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            2 months ago

            Have you ever seen such a change that background of fonts changed from black to red? Or have you experienced such a case that usb operating system wouldnt start in any way?

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              Fonts changing to red is sort of weird. I would think that system fonts might be reset in the case I was talking about. What is much more worrying than that is the USB fuckery. Could still be something completely innocuous. Maybe open a Github issue?

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                2 months ago

                Thank you for your interest in my problem, really, it means a lot. No, I haven’t opened a Github issue becayse I was sort of sure it was a virus and as that was the fifth time, I just gave it up because I have spent about 3000 euros on the systems, so I was frustrated and gave it up