[graemep]

> if Linux had the market share Windows does you would be saying the exact same stuff about your grandma getting rootkits on her Ubuntu box

To some extent. I am not convinced it would be as bad.

For one thing, Linux is less of a monoculture.

For another, you can lock it down more for that type of user. You can set it up to make it hard to install anything from outside trusted repos.

[dist-epoch]

You can lock down Windows too, you can restrict it to Windows Store only, you can allow only whitelisted apps to be installed, you can lock down user permissions, ...