“I didn’t wait, I got on it as my primary right away. Love the security for normal everyday use.”
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Indeed. I might buy a year’s worth of added virus/malware protection via Not Eset32. You can use the fully-functional trial version for a month.
https://www.eset.com/us/home/products/antivirus-linux
Linux is pretty secure to start with, most user don’t bother with additional av-malware protection - it’s just more a peace-of-mind thing to me.
Their are other, free AV programs for Linux, but Eset is a quality brand anti-malware I’ve used on Windows and found it does a pretty good job with real-time protection.
I meant to ask you; what software/kernel update level(s) do you use for Mint? I believe it has 4 levels? Is there a super-safe setting that gives you only security fixes/updates important updates, but doesn’t break your installation?
What I found is with Linux you don’t need any anti-viruses for Linux it’s self. But... If you receive an infected file and forward it to someone with windows it is still infected for them as a hand me down.
So the only reason to really install antivirus ware would be to scan stuff before you pass it on just to be nice. lol
But AVG has a realtime version for Linux, And ClamAV is realtime and supposed to be pretty good and designed specially for linux and they are free. But I haven’t installed any yet.
” Is there a super-safe setting that gives you only security fixes/updates important updates, but doesn’t break your installation?”
With my cinnamon update manager, it lets you adjust it to automatically update or just go check and then you can update when you want to manually. And it let’s you decide what you want updated with check boxes. But from my experience so far, and from what I have heard, linux updates don’t break things.