Or we could run Linux that same way. But one of the many sound reasons I have for using Windows 10 (which actually is via a upgrade from XP years ago) is that I am basically in an office setting (with one PC running Mint mainly for basic streaming), and we use landlines for phone service since they all ring to one of the 4 phones here (which I am told cell/smart phones will not). And one piece of software (PhoneTray free 1.39) that really helps is one that notifies me of any incoming calls, with the name (editable) and number which is saved for a file. All of which is very hand and quite permanent.
This runs thru an old soft modem, while Windows simply automatically installed, and I think that this functionality would be hard to duplicate under Linux, even once the modem is configured.
However, I do think that Google Voice (free calls) also works under Linux, and which I also use sometimes in Windows (via Chrome portable), though I have not tried it on the Mint box.
if you wanna run a talk program on linux- there is the online browser one (actually there’s an umber of them)
We use https://talky.io/ - works pretty good- doesn’t matter wat os you use it on, as long as you have firefox as browser- skype was getting too bloated with junk and would cut out a lot on us awhile back so i found the one above- not quite as many features- but works fine for communicating via video