Don't fall for the trap, it's not cheaper when you consider that you can do no upgrade and no repair

They are more or less the same piece of hardware with different software in it. There are no reasons a console wouldn't do the same things that a PC does other than the devs put limits on what you can do with these. Consoles are crap made for stealing kids money

Sound like you are addicted to videogames

it’s just like a very strict parent that takes away all your gaming consoles and tells you it’s for your own good

That's exactly what companies do when they decide that you can play their games only on their platforms at their own rules

I would definitely argue that Linux has good music software… But better? By what metric?

By the metric that windows is a closed box while linux can be tuned to be a much better machine to play and make music. Not having the possibility to route audio is a joke and an even bigger joke is using windows to play live with 0 control over what it does

Linux, every time, without fail, commits suicide after a few weeks

You must be doing something really wrong with it because on popular distros this is not really supposed to happen. If you encounter such issues report them to the devs. You probably want to try a more stable distro

Don't give up, it's easier than it seem you just don't know how to do it yet

There's Krita, Gimp, Blender, Stable Diffusion and more

Windows is stable/reliable/accessible.

It's not stable (servers run on linux) it's not reliable (autoupdates) it's not accessible (closed source)

Ardour, Pure Data, Jack.

Such as windows?

buy an used car