Linux provides just as many, if not more, ways vulnerabilities than windows.
While the number of vulnerabilities any OS has that are *discovered* is relative to the number of people who use them (e.g. Apple viruses become more popular as more people use MacOS/IOS) - here is a control test you can perform for yourself, regarding the above statement.
Download a 20MB distribution of Linux. Spend some time, and read the code (at 20MB compiled, it might take a hired programmer a week or 2?)
From there you can ascertain exactly what is going on with your system from the source. You can then compile it and run it, and if you were using
a slim web browser like w3m or lynx, have a fairly good idea that your system is secure.
This is impossible to do with Windows or MacOS.
Once you go into more complicated distributions of linux, the amount of code increases, while the ability to audit it decreases.
In fact, modern web browsers are so complicated that its easier for me to compile an entire OS than to compile JUST the browser...
I just think the statement is not quite correct, as the average person who uses Linux has some interest in how the system works,
while the average desktop user simply wants it to work consistently.
Browsing the web today entails implicit tracking of all sorts. I use windows on my desktop, but prefer being able to use any system.