Linux is the most secure, partly due to it's Unix understructure. Windows lacks a strong definition of Adminship, and lowered rights for the user, "Root" and "Users," for use Linux guys. Of course, Linux's way is considerably more fustrating, it's a lot easier to do whatever you want, whenever you want on your Windows system, without having to enter the Root password all the time.
And Viruses don't work on Linux, not due to scarecity, but more to the fact that so long as you don't run unknown code with root permissions, you aren't allowed to destroy the system.
But... The most attacks these days are through the applications. So not updating your Apache under Linux will get you into just as bad of a jam as not updating it under Windows.
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Linux is the most secure, partly due to it's Unix understructure. Windows lacks a strong definition of Adminship, and lowered rights for the user, "Root" and "Users," for use Linux guys. Of course, Linux's way is considerably more fustrating, it's a lot easier to do whatever you want, whenever you want on your Windows system, without having to enter the Root password all the time.
And Viruses don't work on Linux, not due to scarecity, but more to the fact that so long as you don't run unknown code with root permissions, you aren't allowed to destroy the system.
But... The most attacks these days are through the applications. So not updating your Apache under Linux will get you into just as bad of a jam as not updating it under Windows.
I use Gentoo.