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You can just use a VM and an antivirus on Windows. Linux isn't really necessary for your scenario
Well you can just some windows is always unsafe.
I'd argue it's literally the worst virus, tbh. It's terrible at literally EVERYTHING, annnnd (for activated versions that didn't come with your hardware) costs money.
And after all that, you still gotta deal with the Windows virus itself.
That is exactly the point. You want to create a psychological boundary, you treat it as a disposable system so you never put any valuable data on it in the first place
That's not a good enough reason to use it, even disposably, even as a throwaway, ever. Unless your producing music or video and can't adapt to the alternatives, or something like that, there's no reason to use Windows at all.
No matter how many different layers of virtualization you use, then just different fistros. Never Windows.