Windows users have recently begun mass-reporting that Microsoft's Defender antivirus program, which is integrated into Windows 10 and 11 by default, is
If we define malware as something having functions to harm the user and not only things build soley for this purpose, then of course Windows is malware.
oh noes, my karma! Oh wait - there's no such thing on lemmy :)
In all honesty, I think most people downvoting did not fully understand my comment in relation to the one I was replying to. I think they misread it as "people with half a brain cell or more don't use windows" and pushed the arrow down.
Eu4 with little to no actual knowledge of how the things in my OS work, I just know what Google is. Also I can't afford a new PC or to risk screwing up my current one
If you've got a USB stick lying around you can make a "live disk" (or whatever it's called nowadays) and run Linux off it to try it out. 90% of being a techie is having an interest and knowing how to do a web search so you're most of the way there already!