alt Hacker NewsThe Linux Mint support forums keep telling people to try turning it off to fix problems, but I installed Mint just fine with it enabled on my 8 (at the time) year old hardware, before I'd even heard that there was such a thing.
Anyway, it's good to hear that I probably don't have anything to worry about.
Unfortunately, hearing this is not surprising since desktop Linux users tolerate having poor security and rely on never ever running malware to keep themselves safe over having the operating system itself protect against malware.