What the title says, and that’s pretty much it. Do you or don’t you?

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I trust that windows viruses won’t work on Linux. Plus I don’t pirate software, unless I can crack it myself using binaries provided by the software. I just see pirating software as supporting a company I hate instead of supporting an open source project I like

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I just see pirating software as supporting a company I hate instead of supporting an open source project I like

Yes!

Adobe owes a huge part of their success to piracy. It made it impossible for smaller companies to get a foothold back in the 90s because everyone just pirated Photoshop. It never would have become so entrenched (or grown so exploitative in licensing) if people had instead used cheaper/free alternatives.

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I upload any suspicious files to virustotal.com.

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…do you still trust Windows…

lol, not since 2004, and I’ve never looked back!

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Q: How do you know that you don’t have a virus without AV?

A: How do you know that you don’t have a virus WITH AV?

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I don’t even have antivirus on my computer. I almost exclusively use private trackers and download music/shows/movies.

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