I've never had much trouble with Electrum under Linux.  I run both Rasbian and Debian and I have Bitcoin and Litecoin versions of Electrum.  I might have gotten it running under OpenBSD too, years ago now.

I love the fact that once you set up a new copy on a different machine and put in your seed words you have a clone of your original.  If your hard drive or whatever craps out you can start fresh, put in your seed, and all your bitcoin and records are in the new installation.  And if you have multiple computers you can put it on all of them and the copies stay in synch.

I can't imagine trying to live with Windows anymore, haven't used it seriously in 10 years.  There are thousands of programs for Linux, all free.  It took me about 20 years to be comfortable and confident about unix in general though, so I can understand reluctance to adapt.  Viruses?  Mostly only under Windows.  I'm getting off topic.

I use coinbase.com instead of blockchain.com.  They aren't perfect either but I've been with them a few years.  That's for the dollars to bitcoin exchange, then I send it to my Electrum address.