I’ve often heard about these legitimate fears, though why would revealing Satoshi’s real identity destabilise the bitcoin economy/make him a target?

Genuinely unsure.

Same here, still on Windows 10 though it’s desperately trying to reinstall it’s crapware removed from the image with NTLite.

Will be switching to some flavour of Linux at some point (we also use this PC for some Steam games), so I’ll check SteamOS out!