In which threat models are Windows & OSX more secure than Linux?

Yeah, why help build the next “Adobe”? Use and donate to FOSS.

Is desktop linux more insecure than Windows? I know it’s less targeted, bit is it technically more insecure? Are secureblue and grapheneos more secure than a hardened OSX / Windows?

They didn’t want to close source it. Someone correct me but I think they wanted to put RHEL behind a Paywall.

From secure blue’s website:

Who is secureblue for?

secureblue is for those whose first priority is using Linux, and second priority is security. secureblue does not claim to be the most secure option available on the desktop. We are limited in that regard by the current state of desktop Linux standardization, tooling, and upstream security development. What we aim for instead is to be the most secure option for those who already intend to use Linux. As such, if security is your first priority, secureblue may not be the best option for you.

Why do they say that? What limitations does Linux have in terms of security?

Exactly.

Like what my Steam Deck does?

The following is genuine curiosity, no sarcasm or anything negative is intended:

Why is it American? In name? Because technically it isn’t. Or at least not different from any other distro. I mean, isn’t the Linux Kernel mostly American? How about SystemD? I believe we don’t need to keep listing stuff…

Can someone ELI5?

If you want to try a distro that can just work for you, instead of reading about it, do this:

• Aurora if you don’t do gaming.
• Bazzite if you play games.

They are both from the Universal Blue family of distros which are based on Fedora Silverblue.

They are all immutable and atomic. They won’t break. They will be more stable than windows. It will be easy. And it will come with batteries included.

Also, if you do gaming and are also a developer, there’s bazzite-dx which will be releasing soon.

I hope they go immutable. No maintenance.

I recently tried Bluefin and Aurora, and KDE Plasma felt way lighter. I didn’t measure it properly so I can only share my anecdotal experience FWIW.

It’s an intel office laptop running the OS from a USBC M2 NVME SSD Caddy.

Just check your driver version, today I read about a bad Nvidia driver and everyone saying to roll back.

KDE Plasma.

It has been great for gaming, adopting Wayland protocols at a faster rate than other DEs due in part thanks to Valve’s contributions.

I freaking love GNOME & Adwaita, but I’ll switch back when I deem it better than Plasma.

My advice is don’t take any advice. Just download the ones you are most interested in and then flash and try one by one until you feel at home.

Ublue Is the base of the better known Bazzite distro, I use it on my desktop, and Aurora on my laptop.

Why not install the Flatpak and get it now instead of waiting 3 months?

Yeah, I agree… modding, trainers and games outside Steam aren’t easy enough yet. On Windows I didn’t use to mod games (except for Minecraft which is easy on Linux), so that didn’t hurt. What I did lose was WeMod. My take is that using Steam is way less bad than having to use Windows.

If the sanctions we are talking about actually took place, Steam in EU would be fucked. Better bet in GOG. Also, Bazzite is easier to setup and use than Windows. I made the switch a year ago, I still don’t know crap about Linux. Just try it.

It already is suitable as a daily driver, I use it for work and gaming.

How about systemd ? Aren’t all distros kinda fucked?