This statement just about contradicts the rest of your argument.
If both are equally as susceptible to hacking and the target is drones, then why would they choose one OS over the other?
Given the variables you presented, there is no reason.
That's like having a choice of two identical doors by which you can reach an intended destination in the same amount of time, except one is blue and the other white. Why choose one over the other if your goal is to reach the target?
It's the
people who are susceptible, more than the platform.
Look, I have customers who require visits three time a year. I hate to call them idiots, as many of them are successful business owners, managers, etc. While at any given time I have a half dozen or more PC -based systems of my own in use by myself and my wife and we've never gotten infected by anything, and we do a LOT of web surfing. I won't even tell you about some of the web surfing
I do! My mom has been using PCs for three decades and has never picked up anything harmful. Same with my brother.
To be fair, I did get hit by a drive-by (from a malvertising attack against a zero-day Java and/or Acrobat vector I think it was, no direct fault of the owner of Storage Review) many years ago but it failed because I was using NT 4.0 and the hack was designed for Windows 2000. LOL.
You're also assuming that the target is drones. I never said it was. But if you're flying while a hacker is trying to use your laptop or tablet as part of a DDOS network, spam generator or relay or click revenue generator, and all your network traffic is being hijacked and your DNS calls are being redirected, do you really believe that's going to be harmless?
It's not even a matter of PC users being any more ditzy than Mac, 'Droid, etc. users. There are far more PC users, so there are more attacks designed to exploit PC users. It's
that simple. Mostly, anyway. I've noticed that when Mac users see notices to install patches and updates, they usually do so promptly, while PC users have a far greater tendency to ignore them. As a result they wind up getting hit by exploits against outdated OS components or against Java, Acrobat, etc. much more often.
I personally would not have any hesitation to use a Windows box.
I would definitely hesitate to have some of my customers use Windows. But sometimes they have no choice. The software they're required to use is only available in Windows. Here we
do have choices.
I hope this makes everything sufficiently clear.