I’ve been using Linux for more than 25 years and never had an antivirus. I’m also trying to just keep to official repos. From what I’ve seen over the years it’s not viruses or malware that are the most dangerous on Linux, but vulnerabilities found in some software, that usually only requires you to update your system.
Maybe I’d be more careful if I was installing obscure packages from weird places, but I’m about as conservative as Debian when it comes to new software and bleeding edge, so usually the stuff that I install has been tried and tried again.
I’ve been using Linux for more than 25 years and never had an antivirus. I’m also trying to just keep to official repos. From what I’ve seen over the years it’s not viruses or malware that are the most dangerous on Linux, but vulnerabilities found in some software, that usually only requires you to update your system.
Maybe I’d be more careful if I was installing obscure packages from weird places, but I’m about as conservative as Debian when it comes to new software and bleeding edge, so usually the stuff that I install has been tried and tried again.