I set up no such straw man. I don't need to. You don't claim it's foolproof, you claim it's more secure at all.
How exactly is desktop Linux intrinsically more secure than Windows, when the overwhelmingly predominant threat vector (the naivete of the desktop user) is the same across both system classes?
“I set up no such straw man. I don’t need to”
No you have not, but other have and often do. But you did hold up a hypothetical trojan which is more a social engineering attack than a virus as an example that Linux is just as insecure as windows.
“How exactly is desktop Linux intrinsically more secure than Windows, when the overwhelmingly predominant threat vector (the naivete of the desktop user) is the same across both system classes?”
Because if you want to use that measure than nothing is more or less secure than anything else. The example of a Piggy bank and an ATM someone used stands out. Because if you’re stupid people can get your money from an ATM a bank must be no more secure than a piggy bank. That is basically what you are saying.
That’s why the differences between a virus and a Trojan are important in this discussion. Code Red did not need any user interaction it just went everywhere *by its self* once on a network. There has never been such a virus for a *nix system.
You were already given an answer to that in post 43, which you promptly ignored.