Yes. That is why I use Linux: to get a quiet environment. I don’t have to use AV. In my last year of using Windows 7 [2019] I was getting the CPU at 100% when my PC was idle. No idea what was causing it. I had to reboot to stop it.
In Linux I avoid all that. I would still be using Windows if I could have Windows Enterprise. But I am not an anointed one: in this lifetime my soul has not achieved volume licence nirvana. I had a look at Candy Crush last week. Wow. I have never seen such rubbish. Give me the 80s arcade Pacman and Galaxia; I am old and creaky enough to remember them.
But I am not Microsoft’s market. They want the 20 something person who wants to shop in The Windows software centre. They want their customers dumb and full of “yippeee it’s Microsoft” attitude. They don’t want anyone who knows anything about computers.