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Not that the author is necessarily off-base, but that blog post is almost three years old. Tech and software evolve fast, and I would hazard a guess that at least a few of their gripes have been addressed by now. Additionally, due partly to the success of the Steam Deck, Valve has officially partnered with Arch and it's throwing some of their considerable resources into Linux development.
I also noticed that they barely mentioned SELinux or AppArmor, and they probably didn't know about immutable distros (which didn't really exist, yet). It's fair to say that Linux isn't the gold standard of good security, but the post reads like someone with a beef and not someone trying to inform by presenting a skeptic's take (indeed, they seem to gush over Windows and MacOS).
They finish by name-dropping a few people with a vested interest in security, and they're practically begging the question in doing so. If the facts don't stand on their own as the author has presented, why should I listen to strangers who allegedly share the same opinion? That's not how consensus is formed.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, an old article about the state of Linux Security should be assessed within a modern context if we're to apply it to current software.