Why is GNU/Linux the Most Secure Desktop Operating System?

In this video I discuss some of the reasons why GNU/Linux is a more secure desktop operating system that Microsoft Windows and Apples Mac OS. Some of the reasons I give in the video are

Better ways of download software from a software repository, instead of having to go to google to look up software to download and hope that Google actually redirects you to the right place

file permissions on Linux

The fact that Linux users are typically more tech savy than Windows users

And the security that is provided by the linux kernel which is far more secure than the windows kernel.

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[Returnality]

Lol don't be silly. The most secure desktop operating system is obviously TempleOS.

[lndspk]

im sure linux actually absolutely dominates the operating system market if we include servers and not just individual users

[moustaphadiallo]

You forgot to mention linux does not come with a built-in backdoor to your computer.
Update: Well I guess XZ had proven me wrong.

[rodrigosouto]

I think the most important fact is having many tech savvy guys using it.

[hicknopunk]

Temple OS is the only safe and secure OS. Just try mounting a usb device in it.

[Ryan-xqkl]

Not to mention all the patches and possible compromises are CLEARLY listed in the updates unlike the dodgy language of windows and Mac "updates"

[exe_]

If you have a hard time installing any package not made for your specific distro, imagine how hard it is for a dude to make a virus for Linux.

[jd-raymaker]

The biggest vulnerability is located between the chair and the keyboard.
All jokes aside, not all malware uses vulnerabilities to work. Many of them may (and not limited to) give the attacker a reverse shell to the target. To mitigate this attack vector, a good firewall rule is needed.

[BombedByMe]

gnu/linux safest? no
gnu/linux safer than windows? yes

[lHckrCmfr]

I'll swear by Linux's flexibility any day. It's just so much easier to execute on weird hacky ideas. I've had two overlapping Zoom classes at one point, and I'd create two virtual PulseAudio-JACK sinks where each class would go, and wire each class to the left and right channels of my headphones, separately, then use two instances of OBS to record each class into separate files and folders at the same time, so I could watch separately later, and I had a third instance of OBS streaming "the meme camera" into v4l2loopback, and into both Zoom sessions.
All of that, while running a Windows 10 GPU passthrough VM in QEMU, where the VM's main virtual disk is a GPT-formatted _partition_ in my physical SSD, that QEMU accesses as a block device, for maximum performance. Less than 10% CPU usage running all of this with VAAPI (aside from Win10 occassionally taking up more), on a Core i7-6700k. It's madness.

Windows just can't do that shit, definitely not nearly as efficiently, and definitely not without a ton of crappy trialwares downloaded from the Internet.

And that doesn't even count all the times I made slight, trivial customizations to the software I ran at the sourcecode level, to hack around limitations or play with even weirder ideas.

[jackkraken]

To be clear though Linux servers are well known targets. It doesn't get as much press as Windows vulnerabilities but they are still vulnerable because they run most of the web as we know it and not everyone updates their version of Linux.

[OpRiverBottoms]

Well by richard stallmans definition everyone is a hacker

[blehmeh]

1:30

"The script kiddie possibly hasn't even heard of Linux themselves."



I see you're unfamiliar with the ranks and armies of edgy 12 year olds who hear about Kali Linux and revere it like a holy grail of hacking, as if simply having it installed is a sign that you're an unstoppable force not to be deterred from your hacking goals. Then they wipe their Windows XP installation and install the thing so that they can escape from their cushy lifestyle into that of a runaway badass hacker who can't be stopped, and end up not only never figuring out how to hack anything, but also never figuring out how to get basic stuff done on Linux.

[bandanaboii]

You've got me convinced, I'm switching to linux as soon as I graduate from my online school that does not support linux.

[elcaponeholyemperorofnj]

I talked to my dad about open source software, he said that people back then tried to get him fired for pushing things like Linux.

[Iggy_Lakic]

This market share info is outdated. Linux is now at almost 3%

[arikititokowaru]

That pie chart at 2:00 could be updated given its 6 years old as at the time of this comment. Surely the data is no longer valid.

[zopeck]

Hi Mental Outlaw, thank you for your videos, they effectively add insight and real value to the discussed topics. You know, IMO, I think that another reason for Linux to be secure is because of its architectural design, because basically, it is designed in layers like an onion for example, being the most inner layer the kernel. From there "to the outside" you have the other layers like video, audio, the user space and so on. So, as you can see, for malware to make a real damage it has not only to get permission, but also it has to reach the innermost layer of the system, which is the kernel. If for example, a certain user in the system downloads a malware, it will affect this particular user and will not have effective damage over the inner layers of the system. So, in order to bring peace again it would be enough to at most delete the users profile and recreate it again or have it restored from a backup, using tools like rsync for example, if you previously did a backup of course.

[aris]

I am a fan of the channel. Would you be willing to do an interview for the Youtube show Linux Spotlight? The show tries to showcase the best thing about Linux, the community. In the show, each persons talks about their journey in Linux.

[miladsm]

Another reason for Linux being more secure than windows is that a lot of Linux libraries are dynamic which means every single package uses same system libraries so if that lib have bugs and they fix it in the newest version of kernel it will be fixed for every single package that uses that lib
There as in the windows world lot of the applications uses static libraries which means that libraries are inside the package itself and each developer should include that bug fix inside of there application
So instead of just updating once to fix the bug you need to update every single application that uses that lib to fix bug