Or historical exploits/trojans/etc. that deserve more attention? I’ve mostly heard about lucrative vulnerabilities that concern Linux servers, but what about the end-users on desktops? Or is the Linux desktop market small enough that we mostly just see one-off instances of users blindly running malicious scripts?

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    20 hours ago

    For desktop use, the biggest thing as of late has been compromised flatpak’s or appimages. Like others have said Linux users are usually more technical but more importantly we install almost all of our software from trusted repositories instead of exe’s from random websites. Flatpak and appimage brings the bad security hygiene of Windows to Linux. Honorable mention goes to typosquatting programming libraries, but that mostly affects developers and not normal desktop users.