This is why I have an arch btw.

I’m sorry, but with windows, your computer is not yours.

One thing you could try is blocking all Microsoft ips on your firewall so that it cannot remotely install but that is a cat and mouse game where microslop has the advantage and it will break important functionality like security updates.

I would test running those programs in a windows VM within Linux on a different ssd/hdd. There are a few other ways to run a windows program on Linux too like winboat, bottles and wine.