Is Fedora more private and/or secure than MacOS?

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There are various aspects to security and there are proponents of different schools of thought which will prioritize some things over others. Whonix lists various reasons for why they generally recommend sticking to Linux, Xen, and *BSD distributions as a host OS. It’s also worth reading Kicksecure documentation on tyrant security and proprietary software. With that out of the way, I answered a very similar question a while back:

Linux privacy

Some people promote Mac (or even Windows) over desktop Linux because they implement better security features and exploit mitigations. I think there could be valid use cases for preferring Mac over desktop Linux, but I also think a lot of the “anti-Linux” proponents take it way too far. Some go so far as to say that desktop Linux must be avoided at all cost, implying your security will be compromised if you use Linux. While desktop Linux (excluding ChromeOS) is fairly small, there are still man…