What would be a good alternative from using Windows with a PC?
I’ve been running various flavors of Ubuntu for 15 years. Right now it’s Kubuntu but I’ve also used Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Linux Mint and a few others. We use PIA, Private Internet Access for a VPN and they have a version for Linux/Ubuntu.
The majority of web servers run Linux so it’s pretty secure to start with but the bigger thing is that Windows is just a target. When hackers and scammers write their viruses, malware, phishing schemes, they do so with Windows in mind because that’s what most people are using.
Analogy; Mechanics here in the rural place I live won’t touch oddball makes of cars. Hard to find someone to work on a Subaru or Lincoln but they all know how to work on a Chevy, Dodge or Ford pickup truck which account for half of all vehicles out here.
Hackers learn to hack Windows. They may also learn to hack/attack a website but they usually attack the software running on the server, ie WordPress, not the actual Linux web server OS.