Yeah, but I think the point is that Mac OS doesn't have that much of malware, although the numbers are going up as far as cyber criminals creating malwares or trojan for Mac OS, still though if we compare it to Window based wherein the attack could be as high as 80%. Of course no system is 100% safe by this cyber criminals, it's because this group are sophisticated and really good at what they are doing. The only weapon we have it to educate ourselves with how the attacks are being perpetuated, their modus operandi, so that as crypto enthusiast who uses Windows or any OS, we can prevent this kind of attacks and our crypto will be safe.
That malware can do nothing if user did not run it first himself. I have never seen when when a malware or trojan downloads and run himself, after user only turns on his device. It is user who always makes a first step. From reading this topic, user can believe that if he buys a none-windows device, he will be 100% safe. From my own experience - I have MacOs at home and in the office. Still someone managed to steal from my ETH wallet. How this happened? I dont know. Doubt that I caught a keylogger and someone accessed my wallet.
I find it funny when on crypto related forums people discuss pros and cons of unlicensed copies of Windows. I have looked on this forum, but on our neighbor forum we have windows key sellers. <$5 and your windows will be licensed. Add more $5 and you get a key for antivirus license. Nevertheless, licensed copy of Windows or not, it does not matter, as user himself makes security mistakes. Even after buying Mac, users isnt insured against copy/pasting his key on a phishing page.
I don't see what's so funny, when i've seen few people do their work/job on non-activated Windows. And while it's true there are many places to buy cheap windows or software key, there's risk the key become invalid if the seller turns out obtain it illegally. You probably want to read this article, https://www.howtogeek.com/392080/cheap-windows-10-keys-do-they-work//
It is funny because these keys cost nothing and users can change them easily and cheap. With crypto, that key market only grew. Keys became more available and affordable. People prefer to have limited functions and annoying "active windows" warning message for years, than to spend 5-10 dollars and forget about it. That is a cost of 1 cup of coffee...