Is not having flash a good thing?
If recent reports about malicious flash files being distributed as ads are to be believed, then yes! In this case, Linux users, who typically have trouble installing flash, are far less vulnerable to the attack because flash doesn’t work well (if at all) on many systems (Ubuntu being the exception).
Pobega said,
October 30, 2008 at 6:03 pm
What are you talking about? flash works fine on all distributions. Why do people think Ubuntu is the only distro that can do so-and-so. Ubuntu is just a cruddy Debian Unstable repository.
techprophet said,
October 30, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Ubuntu is very good. Flash is a pain to get installed in Gentoo. Arch is easy and openSUSE is easy. Many have trouble with it though. And on all of my Linux systems flash runs poorly. Ubuntu is best with flash.