HW wallets were born because of Windows, because Windows could not be trusted. People, instead of switching to Linux, choose to continue with Windows and displace the trust to a random idiotic hardwar...
Using Linux does not protect you from exploits and exfiltrations. This is coming from someone who has daily-driven linux for over a decade.
Hardware wallets solve a completely different problem than what you're referring to. A hot wallet on a linux machine is still, for example, swapping your seed phrase from RAM to disk, sitting in cleartext on an unencrypted volume.
Hardware wallets solve a completely different problem than what you're referring to. A hot wallet on a linux machine is still, for example, swapping your seed phrase from RAM to disk, sitting in cleartext on an unencrypted volume.