If anything, Linux may benefit from relatively varied installation states in security scheme (SELinux, Apparmor, etc.), libraries included, and desktop environm

If anything, Linux may benefit from relatively varied installation states in security scheme (SELinux, Apparmor, etc.), libraries included, and desktop environment. It is perhaps bit harder to pull off one-size fit-all attacks. Things like data at rest protection seems to work better on Linux; as far as I know, there aren't out of box solution for Pre-boot authentication for Windows, for instance. Edit: To the latter point, it looks like BitLocker has the mode to allow that, if you have Professional/Enterprise with TPM...