Last time I read about it, it said don’t install KDE-connect on the GNOME system , just use GS connect, or it breaks stuff

There were a few in the last couple of years, but not a widespread virus like Windows. There was a hiding in plain sight virus. Basically just files named similarly and a mechanism to hide itself when you ran ‘top’ type commands,

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