@tripleman @Gargron

> that the only solution was to nuke it from space and *buy a whole new computer*

Installing GNU+Linux was *always* a better solution to that, until very recently (ie until the hidden low-level proprietary software layer / BIOS's made that less effective at removing the malware)

the problem was ALWAYS proprietary software frustrated the user's ability to understand what was going on, provide depth in defence and so on. The 'people installing viruses problem on windows' was ALWAYS about users not actually having control over the computer enough to do what they needed to do / understand programs they were running. "Running all executables" is a form of learned helplessness fomented BY the likes of microsoft because all of *their* executables are malware/black boxes too and so they *couldn't* teach users to not use them