Which desktop OS suitable for non-techncial cryptocurrency owner?

[rdluffy]

But you still have to be careful because there are viruses that make you copy an address from a wallet, and when you paste it, the hacker's address appears
Or you could sign a malicious contract that could drain your funds.

That's true, I was forgetting this very important detail, even if malware can't access the private keys/seed from a hardware wallet, it still has access to the clipboard and can change the destination address, resulting in losses. The victim doesn’t even notice. That's why it's important to at least double-check the first and last 4 characters of a crypto address.

I don't remember where I saw it, the news is a bit old, but there was a “hack”, where the hackers had a lot of wallet addresses, and there was a good chance that you would copy and paste and the fake address would look a bit like yours

For example, yours starts with 0x12345
The hacker's could be something like 0x12435

Anyway, he could get the beginning or the end to be similar and it could be easier to confuse the user
I'm paranoid and I end up checking the whole address when I do some higher-value tx.

[joniboini]

I don't remember where I saw it, the news is a bit old, but there was a “hack”, where the hackers had a lot of wallet addresses, and there was a good chance that you would copy and paste and the fake address would look a bit like yours

Are you referring to an address poisoning attack? I'm sure people still do that nowadays. I don't think choosing an OS would help that much to avoid them, though, since they target any address with some balances instead, CMIIW.

Btw, anyone familiar with Win 11 debloat script like this one[1]? I'm not sure if it has been mentioned before, but I'm wondering if running that can help a newbie use Windows to manage their crypto slightly better.

[1] https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

[ABCbits]

I don't remember where I saw it, the news is a bit old, but there was a “hack”, where the hackers had a lot of wallet addresses, and there was a good chance that you would copy and paste and the fake address would look a bit like yours

Are you referring to an address poisoning attack? I'm sure people still do that nowadays. I don't think choosing an OS would help that much to avoid them, though, since they target any address with some balances instead, CMIIW.

You're right. Choosing wallet and block explorer which shows full Bitcoin address (not just first few and last character) are more effective option, assuming you check what you copy-paste.

Btw, anyone familiar with Win 11 debloat script like this one[1]? I'm not sure if it has been mentioned before, but I'm wondering if running that can help a newbie use Windows to manage their crypto slightly better.

[1] https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

I never use it, but there are some script or software aims to harden windows such as this one https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security.

[joniboini]

I see, I tried to use it on one of my devices, and it works fine so far. Reading reviews on social media, I noticed that the reception is generally mixed for scripts like that. Then again, most newbies probably don't want to run a script like that to begin with. I'll try and use it to see if it breaks Windows whenever it receives an update or something.

[bitmover]

Then again, most newbies probably don't want to run a script like that to begin with. I'll try and use it to see if it breaks Windows whenever it receives an update or something.

Newbies shouldn't even run scripts of any kind, because they can make great damage to your system.

Unless the person understand at least very basic coding, nobody should run scripts at all. You need to read the script and have a small understanding about it before running anything,