My experience with much-customized Windows and Linux has been quite the opposite, with more problems relative to use and less easily enabled customization, and harder to find solutions to problems (and Linux has'em) and scope of safe, quality comparable freeware and ease of getting it. And with only 2 viruses (under 98 and XP) in over 18 years of extensive Internet use and installations, thanks be to God. And with no antivirus software for most it (though Windows Defender runs once in a while now).
Just installed Linux 19.1 on a laptop, dual boot with W./7 (default Mint alongside install messed up the boot, and the first software install resulted in my first error on it, "It seems that the daemon failed." "Most likely the background daemon crashed.") But you like Linux and its all legal then fine, and the feeling should be mutual.
I can’t imagine a web/email user needing to customize an OS for anything. Our mainframe is Red Hat Linux and it never crashes. I have never really done anything on a Linux desktop other than install an occasional app. The home Linux box just does web/email and music through the Luxman receiver. It was my sister’s Windows laptop and it was so full of malware that I had to wipe the drive.
Most people that I help with Windows problems are infected. A poll in my Kiwanis club showed that 50% of them had fallen for scams, mostly on their computer. If you are never going to get infected, you don’t need Linux.