I am just annoyed by people saying Linux or Windows is more secure. It such a non argument. If someone is just plain stupid, clicks all links and downloads all kind of crap no amount of OS hardening will help him.

I agree that article is crapy and I wasted my time reading it.

Indeed, Desktop-Linux doesn't offer much in terms of security.

APIs to restrict applications accessing your user data? Sandboxing for GUI applications? A secure GUI path, i.e., something where you can trust that this kind of window is not malicious software but your OS? Biometrics? (making non-techies into using some authentication at all)

Try AppArmor profiles. May not cover everything on your list but offers pretty decent security.

Gnome 3.38 AFAIK has biometrics support.

I remember people saying that of OS X when I bought my first Mac in 2002 -- my response "well, might as well enjoy a few years of not being targeted by malware while I can..."

Let's see if actually escaped that. What is malware purpose? If it's prank, a mild nuisance or just a bit of wasting your time I think it's an OK malware. But if it manages to siphon your finances then I'd say it's bad.

Now look at the history of Apple. Did they or did they not always delivered same hardware performance at double the price? I'd say you paid for malware, fully and on top of that you're also proud. Q.E.D.

This comment sounds like it's a 2002 criticism, too. I appreciate the historical accuracy.

_Desktop_ Linux is absoultely not under attack whatsoever. So no, this _IS_ security by obscurity (in an arguably somewhat different sense of the word though) at work.

> _Desktop_ Linux is absoultely not under attack whatsoever.

Is that actually true? For example, we know NSA targets sysadmins and sysadmins use desktop Linux at much higher rates than the general public.

Relatively few people use desktop Linux, but those who do may generally be more attractive targets.

I personally do not engage in activities which would attract NSA attention. I am a lot more scared of an average malware which soo abundant on Windows and even MacOS (yep, had fix friend's Mac, which had malware on it).