Linux community isn't in a reasonable position to criticise Microsoft on security. Mainstream distributions are much worse off than Windows.
Plenty of RCE bugs? Over what time period? I've seen "plenty" of local, very few remote. Attack surface for remote is very low.
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Attack surface is low? There's a huge network stack with an enormous amount of features written in a memory unsafe language in the kernel.
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For userspace, it depends on what's running. The topic of the thread was primarily desktop distributions. They have tons of attack surface.
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They make awful security decisions on basic stuff like file handling and indexing and there's no attempt to sandbox / reduce attack surface.
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