Crowdstrike's malware-as-a-service is now affecting Linux. Red Hat, Rocky and Debian stable are affected. According to distrowatch.com, most of us here running linux as a desktop are using debian and debian stable based distros like Mint, Ubuntu, MX. Stop updating, 2 wks+
(www.theregister.com)
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It has less market share. Miniscule for personal computers but is #1 for web servers. It's not worth malware developers putting in the time to create malware for personal use Linux desktops and laptops, but there are plenty of hacks available for Linux servers. Especially servers running dated versions of operating system distributions. In these cases, there are well established ways into systems and bots will probe for them and they are likely already compromised.
It's like how Apple used to be super safe because it was less than 5% of home computers and hackers spent their time working on exploits for the lion's share of Windows computers.