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Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.
For those who are wondering, yes, Wine is malware compatible so be careful about the EXEs you run!
I just got a real bad malware on my windows PC and I'm legit considering using Linux as a response. What's the best into to someone who isn't a programmer but understands computers relatively well enough?
I haven't run a Linux machine in years. Has wine improved or was I just not savvy enough to get things to run on it?
It's gotten significantly better since ~2010 or so when I was first struggling with it. Valve developing Proton on top of it definitely didn't hurt even if that in particular is more games focused.
I didn't know malware compatible was a term, oh it's wonderful! I'm gonna use it on people in real life hehe