I’m about to install bazzite on my wife’s older (2017) Windows 10 machine, and I’ve been going over how to recreate everything she currently has. Most programs (even proprietary ones) are not an issue, but I’m not finding much in the antivirus department.

I never even thought to install one on my Linux machine (also on bazzite, but I have used other distros in the past). So although I am no stranger to Linux, this issue blindsided me.

I know clamav exists, and I’m educating myself on how to use it, but a GUI would be nice for the wife. She’s not afraid of the terminal, but she likes the convenience of GUI programs.

Any suggestions? What do you use? Or is it just generally accepted that one should be careful and keep things up-to-date and that’s enough?

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Kinda mirroring the other points here, if you only install from the distro’s repos then you’re all good.

    But…

    Better than AV (blocks known bad), you’re better off looking into things that only allow known good, like selinux, etc, which might be part of bazzite anyway? (I don’t use it, so unsure)