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)
Security is the output of removing vulnerabilities and insecure configs
So, the real answer is: what’s the minimal software you need and the most regularly updated.
So, my choice is Arch.
Yep, installation takes a little longer and needs more technical skills, but only install the bits you need (also learn a little more this way) and then updates are tiny and can be done as often as you’re comfortable with.
Whatever you choose, it will break / die / be deleted or corrupted one day, so always backup your data separately than the OS (separate drive partitions can help) and you’re done.