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
If you just quit reddit because they dropped support for same mobile application there is a lot you should learn. Learn what free software is https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software learn about Aaron Swartz.
Don't fall for the trap, it's not cheaper when you consider that you can do no upgrade and no repair