Debian has automatic updates but they can be manual as well. That's not the case in Windows.
The best practice for security critical infrastructure in which peoples lives are at stake, is to install some version of BSD stripped down to it's bare minimum. But then the company has to pay for much more expensive admins. Windows admins are much cheaper and plentiful.
Also as a user of Ubuntu and Debian for more than a decade, i have a hunch that this will not happen in India [1].
well, in another sense, Windows is certainly to blame partially. Several technical solutions have been put forward here and in other places, that would've at least limited the blast radius of a faulty update/driver/critical path.
Windows didn't implement any of those. Presumably by choice and for good reasons: A tradeoff would be that software like crowdstrike is more limited in protecting you. So the Windows devs deliberately opted for this risk.
Debian has automatic updates but they can be manual as well. That's not the case in Windows.
The best practice for security critical infrastructure in which peoples lives are at stake, is to install some version of BSD stripped down to it's bare minimum. But then the company has to pay for much more expensive admins. Windows admins are much cheaper and plentiful.
Also as a user of Ubuntu and Debian for more than a decade, i have a hunch that this will not happen in India [1].
[1] https://news.itsfoss.com/indian-govt-linux-windows/