If instead of Windows someone uses Ubuntu
1 - they have to worry much less about injections
2 - they get real time patching
If on top of that they use only store apps they get
3 - an apparmor profile per app
4 - snap containising the app
5 - continuous updates for all the apps
Pt 4) has a bug the other week but Linux in general doesn’t have a higher frequency of bugs
6 - plenty of rootkit hunter tools
The above is equivalent to having windows configured to paranoid settings with the difference that no time is spent on securing the system, even those security suites that have excellent UX functionality do require some time spent on configuration and reading what to do. Compare that to Ubuntu where security comes out of the box.
Is the time spent locking down a Windows machine worth it at the end of the day? If games is the only argument perhaps buying an Xbox is the simplest thing to do.
I’m talking about a home environment, I find my self using almost no Windows only software , even .net development can be done in Linux these days
1 - they have to worry much less about injections
2 - they get real time patching
If on top of that they use only store apps they get
3 - an apparmor profile per app
4 - snap containising the app
5 - continuous updates for all the apps
Pt 4) has a bug the other week but Linux in general doesn’t have a higher frequency of bugs
6 - plenty of rootkit hunter tools
The above is equivalent to having windows configured to paranoid settings with the difference that no time is spent on securing the system, even those security suites that have excellent UX functionality do require some time spent on configuration and reading what to do. Compare that to Ubuntu where security comes out of the box.
Is the time spent locking down a Windows machine worth it at the end of the day? If games is the only argument perhaps buying an Xbox is the simplest thing to do.
I’m talking about a home environment, I find my self using almost no Windows only software , even .net development can be done in Linux these days