Guess all the enterprise customers want this on their AI computers
Ew, what? No
Microsoft is like a plague.
They spot something with potential and immediately pounce on it. That’s exactly how it went with GitHub too. And now they’re trying to insert themselves into Linux. Probably just to harvest data. Complete bullshit. I would never use that.Crucial distinction: this is specifically for enterprise developer workstations under corporate management (requiring Defender for Endpoint / M365 enterprise licenses), not a general release for all Linux users.
I wrote a bit about what this means for the compliance versus privacy tug-of-war over on my site: Microsoft Defender Arrives on Linux Workstations.
Definitely an interesting shift for mixed-stack environments.
Original content by The Unknown Universe, written by a human and not AI generated!
What the fuck?
Next up: Microsoft Linux with crap like Game Center.
Thanks, but no thanks.
It’s to meet compliance regulations for orgs leveraging linux with E5/E7 licenses already. I doubt they even publish a version your average user can license, and it’s probably just an attempt to further entrench orgs into E5/E7, perpetual money drip into the Microslop money tank.
This is really showing that Linux is on its way to be plagued by lots of corporate crap. What surprises me though is that the OS comunity has not come up with a FOSS solution that does what MS Defender does? I’m no programmer so i may be talking out of context. Why do i need to think that my out of the box Debian machine is more vulnerable than MicroSoft Windows.? Time to move to BSD?
It’s perfect for them. They don’t have to do the work of maintaining an OS (Which they suck at) and get to continue monitoring the entire computer using their malwa- I mean security suite. :)
Lmao is it April 1st already? This is so fucking funny to me
Isn’t this mostly for enterprises that have linux on notebooks or VDIs, just so that all of their OS types are in the same ecosystem when it comes to attack surface management (ie in Sentinel)?
For anyone who has been missing Microsoft’s tender, loving embrace since switching to Linux. Copilot for Linux is in development, I presume.
So I actually had claude code make me a python backend that allows copilot to talk and send commands to Windows or Linux computers. Python executes the commands sent by copilot and then returns the output back to copilot via an API, and it goes back and forth like this until it finishes the task. It’s like a janky Claude Code But it works on any device that has Python. It actually operates so much better when you only allow it to respond in commands it’s passing too and from your computer.
Probably already done… Copilot for Linux developed the defender for Linux as a test. They say it even sometimes work!
Then what? Office365 for Linux?
As useful as nipples on a truck.
Ok but… where would the nipples be on a truck? Some diagrams would be helpful
For greasing?
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is just the beginning. Microsoft is making its tools Linux-compatible and is quietly, turning Windows into a desktop environment for the Linux kernel. They probably don’t even need to tell their users about it. Surprise, WSL is everywhere now!
I had never thought about this, but my (hopefully not) naive brain loves this if it helps to move the masses to Linux.
And with the masses comes enshitificafion.
The money goes to Linux, then all the proprietary trash makes its way to Linux, along with the money.
That will choke out the FOSS tools that we’ve long enjoyed.
And we’re right back to square one.
Let the masses have their trash, lest they ruin yet another good thing for us.
Look what apple did with BSD. That’s what they will be for Linux.
I’m already ready for us to switch to temple os.
Why is the first paragraph repeated? Written by AI?
That or just padding, idk