With the recent windows 10 EoL news, I was able to move my dad over to Linux mint. But he does a lot of finance stuff. Long ago, Linux had a belief that desktop Linux are not the primary target for crackers but I don’t believe that true anymore since it’s getting significantly popular lately like Europe government migration over to Linux and Libreoffice.
My question would be , given my dad is just as careful on Linux as he has been on windows, would it be fine to do finance like banking and trading (not the fastest kind )?
If not, what would be your distro of choice for that? Even browsers (I installed Firefox and Edge from Microsoft website deb file)
OpenSUSE is big on the security and usability front. None of the services you install activate by themselves. Firewall active by default. The first user doesn’t get access to every group under the sun after installation.
And everything can be controlled through GUI tools. But it doesn’t throw a fit when you’ve done something yourself through the CLI.
Also SELinux by default now instead of AppArmor. It can be a pain but it works. I.e. files dumped into a SAMBA share aren’t autoshared unless they have the samba SELinux setting applied, etc