> macOS is my daily driver, and the last security-related hassle I can remember was related to installing an iSCSI kernel extension.
There are probably quite a few security-related hassles that you encounter every day, but you're just used to them and they don't bother you.
Which is totally fair. In practice, the most intuitive and easy-to-use systems tend to be the ones we have used for long enough that they are second-nature.
> I wish there were a secure-by-default Linux distribution that I could safely recommend to neophytes.
There very likely is such a thing, honestly. But for the average user, the most popular distros are very likely "secure enough", especially if Windows-level security is considered acceptable.
There are probably quite a few security-related hassles that you encounter every day, but you're just used to them and they don't bother you.
Which is totally fair. In practice, the most intuitive and easy-to-use systems tend to be the ones we have used for long enough that they are second-nature.
> I wish there were a secure-by-default Linux distribution that I could safely recommend to neophytes.
There very likely is such a thing, honestly. But for the average user, the most popular distros are very likely "secure enough", especially if Windows-level security is considered acceptable.