It would be a reasonable point, if it were backed up by hard numbers. Linux and Windows both offer C++ as a first-class option for graphical desktop applicatio

It would be a reasonable point, if it were backed up by hard numbers. Linux and Windows both offer C++ as a first-class option for graphical desktop applications. They also both offer first-class safe alternatives. Windows has .Net. Linux has, say, Python bindings for Qt and for GTK. It could be that Linux desktop applications are more often written in unsafe languages, but it's not self-evident.