just use simplemining OS and be virus free.
Some prefers windows for other reasons, mining OS is a complete mining OS only, you can't do other things on the OS than to mine but with windows you can do lots of things, standalone mining OS is good for those who don't care about other things but mining only
well with hiveOS and an nvidia card u can do quite a lot for a mining OS
with a lil tweaking u could build up some extra creature comforts
there is another option tho
look into GPU pass through or iommu groups
u could run windows and pass ur mining gpus to a miningOS in a virtual machine or the other way around