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Horseshit. Why do people endlessly promote Linux only to turn around and express smugness, gatekeeping, and hostility to new users?
You're not even correct. The Everything as a file philosophy isn't an antivirus program. Like it's impossible to get malware by blindly pasting script into a terminal.
This attitude is a bigger obstacle to adoption than games compatibility.
Because you chose to phrase it as an insult. "To keep people like you from doing X" has a very different connotation than "this is a security feature that helps protect inexperienced users from malware." One is helpful, one is demeaning.
You are reading too much into the comment.
Because that's your typical neck beard Linux douchebag. Linux is not intuitive, it runs well, but it's not intuitive at all for new users.
It's often not intuitive for *Windows users.
Even then, most of the time it actually is.