If my options are between a barely maintained linux operating system which might compromise my data and a barely maintained windows operating system that is designed to compromise my data I'll take my chances with linux. At this point no one can be assured of their safety and all anyone can do is choose the lesser evil and hope for the best.
You're saying this literally a few days after Microsoft pushed out a Win11 update that broke localhost.
Oh, and that update - fairly sure it was optional.
The usual lesson applies, never install version 1.0. Install 1.0.5 or even better, 1.1.1.
Looking at the intentional degradation since Win7, I'd call it a "barely and maliciously maintained operating system".
But I have to use another MS product daily: Teams. It's a product with very poor usability. Even simple things like tracking which message you have read and which one you haven't don't get better upgrade after upgrade. I am sure they have a huge development budget and tons of paid developers. The number of paid developers can be completely uncorrelated to quality.
(I am sure zulip has just a little fraction of paid developers, but it is a program in the same domain that works muuuch better.)