In practice the situation is a little different though https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/linux_desktop_versus_windows10/attachments/slides/1730/exp

In practice the situation is a little different though https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/linux_desktop_versus_windows10/attachments/slides/1730/export/events/attachments/linux_desktop_versus_windows10/slides/1730/fosdem_linux_desktop_security.pdf https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/linux_desktop... Perhaps you've heard of the disaster known as X? It's pretty clear that 'security' has never been a concern for Linux desktop developers, what software would you choose to run on your open source hardware instead of linux? Here are a plenty of exploit mitigations that simply do not exist for Linux, https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Weston-Windows-10-Mitigation-Improvements.pdf https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Weston-W...