&gt;Is just as high if not higher for a nontechnical user to use Linux. Sure they can look at the source code, but that doesn&#x27;t mean they&#x27;ll be able to make sense of it.<p>Except that there is no adware, malware, spyware, or anything else bundled into a Linux repo. The end user may not know what is up, but Debian (and the whole community of package managers) is doing a lot more to protect the end user than CNet, Google or Apple is doing to protect the end user. It is de rigueur that if I install an app from the app store, it will try to spy on me, export my contacts, etc. This is far less likely with a Linux repo.