Just because you can do more to harden Linux than #Windows doesn't mean Linux is weaker out of the box. It's not.

Windows needs a firewall because it has so many network services installed by default. In contrast, default Linux installs have minimal services running, none of which are listening on the network. Having less attack surface is more secure by design. So your firewall example just highlights my point.

There are, of course better things than a stock #Linux system, of course. #OpenBSD would be one. #Qubes would be another.

But this whole battle of the OSes debate is tired. You do you. The rest of us will do us. There's really no need to try to convince me to switch from open source software to corporate, propritary products. I didn't ask which operating system I should choose.