> The reality is that grandma is going to be better protected while running Windows or MacOS or Chrome OS. If she's running Linux, she is wide open. Strongly d

> The reality is that grandma is going to be better protected while running Windows or MacOS or Chrome OS. If she's running Linux, she is wide open. Strongly disagree. The linux desktop has something like 1% of the marketshare and is far from the lowest hanging fruit. And basic, sane security defaults are plenty good for simple web browsing and emailing. My grandma used to get calls 2-3 times a month from "Microsoft" and "Comcast" trying to get her to download team viewer and cough up some passwords to Windows 8. She eventually got phished by downloading something dumb via email. I put her on the Ubuntus, with some tweaks, and she's doing fine. 10/10 would do it again. > For example, the package manager is very nice, but when you want to install anything that is not in the official repos, your options get just as bad as windows, or worse Grandma ain't installing Steam or an obscure 3rd party metasploit framework -- standard Ubanto repos are fine. She doesn't need rpmfusion to access Office365 emails. > On Windows, you at least have some anti-virus tool scanning for known malware Clam-AV is a thing in Linux and works fine -- we used it on mail relays a while back and had decent results. If you're putting trust in the default MS virus protection you're naive.