I misspoke, it's indeed a "garden", not a walled garden.
Linux users often rail against Apple's gardens, so it'd be dishonest to pretend otherwise. I should know! I've been a Linux user for 20 years now.
> If you're given a vast supply of safe software, and you choose not to use it, remember that you're a grown up and you should do what you like.
But lots of software in Linux isn't available in any repos. For example, games and stuff a typical mainstream user would expect. So Linux couldn't be turned into a "safe" mainstream OS unless it adopted a more diverse "app store", like macOS.
But this could very well be done by Windows, so it's not that one OS is "safe" or "safer" than the other. It's essentially a popularity thing.
> Download random shit from the internet at your own risk
And here we have it! Linux users "download random shit at their own risk" because they are not mainstream users; their needs are served by their distro's repo because their needs are different. If Linux was a mainstream OS, with the kinds of users that come with it, it would either have to turn into macOS or Windows. Either draconian measures (a single store where you can buy everything), or no measures at all (== malware).
Expecting people to "review the installer" is ridiculous.
Linux users often rail against Apple's gardens, so it'd be dishonest to pretend otherwise. I should know! I've been a Linux user for 20 years now.
> If you're given a vast supply of safe software, and you choose not to use it, remember that you're a grown up and you should do what you like.
But lots of software in Linux isn't available in any repos. For example, games and stuff a typical mainstream user would expect. So Linux couldn't be turned into a "safe" mainstream OS unless it adopted a more diverse "app store", like macOS.
But this could very well be done by Windows, so it's not that one OS is "safe" or "safer" than the other. It's essentially a popularity thing.
> Download random shit from the internet at your own risk
And here we have it! Linux users "download random shit at their own risk" because they are not mainstream users; their needs are served by their distro's repo because their needs are different. If Linux was a mainstream OS, with the kinds of users that come with it, it would either have to turn into macOS or Windows. Either draconian measures (a single store where you can buy everything), or no measures at all (== malware).
Expecting people to "review the installer" is ridiculous.