cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/uncommon/p/1089778/linux-is-actually-very-vulnerable-to-exploits-and-it-s-showing-with-high-value-vulnerabi
I hate when people keep repeating the myth that Linux is more secure than X OS without any understanding of how much Linux gets exploited.
On the other hand, FreeBSD rarely suffers from wide security issues.
Overall, I don’t think anyone should repeat the myth that Linux is secure.
And at least if they gonna recommend Linux, they better recommend a good distro with SeLinux, hardened kernel and hardened OS.
Very few operating systems are secure out of the box. It’s up to the users to make it secure. It just so happens to be that Linux is the easiest to make secure, therefore I’ve always seen it as such when done right. Not to mention, I can know exactly how everything works rather than the blackboxes of Win or Mac.
It’s impossible to know what’s happening on macOS. The number of open processes that are running on their computer is mesmerising, so the user feels disempowered. I dream of daily driving FreeBSD