Well, Windows has windows defender, one of the best defences out there. Wine does not AFAIK. But it does have continuous root access. I didn’t pay for photoshop or ableton as those applications are not within my budget (or anywhere close, I’d rather buy another synth). I do have to take a minimal (trusted sources) amount of risk by using cracks and keygens, something which would be stopped if it would be malicious by windows defender, but which gains full root access through wine without a prompt. That’s the reason why wine is such a vulnerability. Same as virus scanners on Linux. The best defense is root access protection. No virus scanners needed.

Another reason why a switch to Linux would be hard for me is directory opus. Can’t work with regular file browsers, they are cringe AF. Dopus is amazing, it’s the best of windows browser, Linux browser and total commander combined, with everything tweakable to a perfect personalized experience. With a NAS with 29/32TB full, a proper file manager is mandatory. I haven’t found a proper substitute for Linux yet, and the devs haven’t announced a Linux version so far.