I've been seeing an awful lot of advice being hurled indiscriminately at people to switch to #Linux in light of things happening in the world lately, including this latest #Apple announcement about advanced data protection.
As someone who has perhaps just a tiny shred of experience having used Linux for over two decades, I truly fear for the people who are taking advice to "just switch to Linux" for their desktop use and believing they will now be ever so safe and secure as if it's some magic security bullet that will mystically shield and protect them from any and all harm.
My take: unless you really know what the fuck you are doing, you are almost certainly less safe on a Linux desktop.
I even know a tiny bit what the fuck I'm doing and I still generally feel less safe, and I apply that knowledge of what I'm doing into building layer upon layer of extra safeguards and isolation around everything I do.
I'll use the remainder of my time to once again ask why re-doing #GTK for the 174th time this decade is somehow a priority over OS level sandboxing of processes (read: not flatpak, where sandboxing applies only to software that comes from it's overwhelmingly "unverified" library and hinges entirely upon the maintainer of that flatpak configuring it properly; I'm talking basically automatic firejail or bwrap on ALL user processes - but that a normal person could ever have any hope of figuring out and selectively allowing things they do want, a la macOS), as well as an application layer firewall - two things you actually get on an Apple computer that are blatantly, painfully absent on Linux - and the type of things that actually would make Linux desktop at least slightly more dummy-proof for your average, normal person.
Let me know when there's something preventing a rogue application or exploited browser zero-day from reading whatever it wants in ${HOME} and exfiltrating it wherever it wants (you know, the things that OS-level sandboxing and application-layer firewalls generally prevent), and then I'll start recommending Linux to more people. Until then, they're probably better off not using it.
Commence the swarm of fanbois telling me that I'm wrong and how none of these basic security features matter 🙄