It is. Mcafee talked about this that now even your average PC user's computer has value on it. The ransomwares are only the first wave built mostly by amateurs.
When the professional hackers, possibly from enemy governments , will start hacking cryptos, then we will all be fucked.
Computer security should be the number one concern here really, forget about quantum computers, it's worthless to design strong encryption if the PC has a backdoor.
or simply because average Linux user is having a less properly updated and maintained system than average Windows user
I disagree closed source doesn't mean code obfuscation in the slightest, even if we ignore potential backdoors.
The Linux monolythic kernel is much better designed than the Windows hybrid one. I have watched a presentation in the past detailing that open source is highly superior to closed source , and this "because the expoit is published" thing is debunked.
It's not just that the closed source OS is not trustworthy, but even their own developers have no idea what is in them, or whether their computers were compromized at compilation, since it's totally closed.
So bugfixing is exponentially harder on closed source OS's. Furthermore just because a lot of bugs are detected in open source is not a bad thing, it's actually a good thing. Imagine how many bugs are not detected in a closed source?
So an open source OS is much closer to perfection, even though bugs will always exist, than a closed source.
Back doors is a different story. I guess Microsoft could be under national security letters...but would they use it on a grand scale, to destroy BTC? Putting themselves out of business? Probably not.
You never know though.
Then there's that.
But the funny thing is that they don't even need to be. Win 10 is literally so privacy invasive that basically anyone who can hack into it get all the data, it's already prepackaged for the hacker thanks to all those horrible telemetry softwares in them.
But muh Paint !!!