xterm wroteStop making it seem as if Linux has cognitive powers.
Again, you're pulling off a
Straw Man, and that's bad and misleading.
I never said that Linux is perfectly secure. I even explicitly said the opposite. I didn't even argue that Linux was more secure than Windows. All I said is that
using Linux's low popularity on the desktop as an excuse to why it has little vulnerabilities is completely wrong.
That's all I said.
Separating server use from desktop use is also a weak argument, especially in the free Unices world, where the software running is the exact same one. I run the exact same Debian than my server does.
On the other hand, if you really want to compare Windows and Linux on a security level, I completely agree that most vulnerabilities in both worlds come from the users. And you could say that since Linux/Unix users are on average more tech-literate than Windows users they would
on average make far fewer mistakes.
However last time I used a real Windows machine, Xp still had some bad reflexes like making you log in as administrator by default. I heard they changed that. Also file ownership and permissions on Windows have always been kind of hazy to me. Maybe things are getting better on that platform.
I'd be glad.