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What are you trying to say? Windows was the target of three out of six successful exploits, four if you consider the platform-agnostic exploit on Virtualbox.

In that article, I see that Windows was pwned 3 times, while MacOS and Ubuntu were pwned once. The other winners went against VMWare and Virtualbox.

“Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, VirtualBox fall at Pwn2Own hacking contest”

The point I try to make to people still stuck in the "OS-loyalty" mindset is, all OSes are vulnerable by default. What matters is what measures you take to protect yourself. If you take no measures, then you have misunderstood security and privacy.

I did say I try to make the point, but brand loyalty is very difficult to talk over.

Dunning-Kruger has a substantial effect over Linux users, it seems. I say that as a Linux fanboy. You are 100% correct. Linux (especially certain distros) is not secure by default. Especially for as long as the user-friendly distros aim to minimize configuration, without harming convenience. Which is to say always.