I wouldn't look at Linux for security-critical productivity work. Most cybersecurity experts run Windows, with Linux in a VM. Or they run Macbooks because of ba

I wouldn't look at Linux for security-critical productivity work. Most cybersecurity experts run Windows, with Linux in a VM. Or they run Macbooks because of battery life, etc. In this case, it comes down to the tooling that they can use to exploit vulns and so on. Linux would be more private, but privacy != security and it all comes down to what your threat model is. The three major OSes have their own security mitigations that you can use to reduce the attack surface. In general, in a multi-user networked environment Windows is going to be more secure than running Linux -- Linux works great as a server because it can be be run barebones thus reducing the attack surface on the OS.