Linux community isn't in a reasonable position to criticise Microsoft on security. Mainstream distributions are much worse off than Windows.
No, I'm arguing that saying Windows server security is better is an utter joke. Not that either is great.
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Don't agree that minimal CentOS / Debian vs. minimal Windows Server has the Linux distributions coming out of it as the winners on security.
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Minimal & properly configured = no ports bound but sshd, sshd configured for pubkey auth only, no weird sshd options enabled.
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Sure, and the Windows setup being compared against has the same setup. The original topic was end user desktop systems using the defaults.
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I agree mainstream Linux distros are bad in this regard but not necessarily worse, just differently bad.
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Windows has loads of UAC-bypass bugs, for example.
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Sure, and if a Linux user account is used for administration via su / sudo, there's no true separation from root. Does it matter though?
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Windows administrator account with UAC ~= Linux user account with sudo root access or the root password, with administration done from it.
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There's a fairly meaningless security boundary and both really only serve to prevent the user from shooting themselves in the foot.
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