With the recent windows 10 EoL news, I was able to move my dad over to Linux mint. But he does a lot of finance stuff. Long ago, Linux had a belief that desktop Linux are not the primary target for crackers but I don’t believe that true anymore since it’s getting significantly popular lately like Europe government migration over to Linux and Libreoffice.
My question would be , given my dad is just as careful on Linux as he has been on windows, would it be fine to do finance like banking and trading (not the fastest kind )?
If not, what would be your distro of choice for that? Even browsers (I installed Firefox and Edge from Microsoft website deb file)
Secureblue is what I’d use if security was a major concern. Every time I’ve tried to use a non-Ubuntu distro I’ve immediately ran into a few technical issues so I stick with Ubuntu.
Generally I think I’m safe as long as I don’t install untrusted software, and the distro didn’t package untrusted software.