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[–] Thaurin@lemmy.world 54 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Proton does not protect you from harm. It’s not a sandbox.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

what about bazzite set to immutable?

[–] nous@programming.dev 10 points 2 hours ago

That does not stop things from stealing your data.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

No but it also doesn't have windows on the other side, someone would have to target a proton setup to get much of anything.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Ye no. If i made malware for windows that goes over all reported drives wine will just happily translate that. Hell, by default wine will map root as z: so no, wine/proton will not help.

Even wannacry was able to cause some damage to linux if ran through wine

[–] Thaurin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why wouldn’t they? Linux is gaining market share.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah, it's slowly gaining market share, but it's still a minuscule size of the user base