> The Mac experience is almost identical I don't agree. If you search for "chrome" or "firefox", you will get a page full of spammy apps that are anything but

> The Mac experience is almost identical I don't agree. If you search for "chrome" or "firefox", you will get a page full of spammy apps that are anything but what you searched for. Linux distributions probably don't audit every single line of code in the packages, however this is code written by trusted developers that is mandated to be open source and distributed through official channels. Getting malware into the package repositories would be very difficult, but it seems that getting a fake Google ad on Bing is very easy, so in my opinion the distribution method makes a big difference.