If someone gives you a guarantee of safety, you get to blame them when things go wrong. If you demand to strike out on your own, you have no one to blame but yourself. And you should honestly be proud of taking the risk; it's literally the only reason to use all this proud, evocative language about being trapped and needing to be free.
Wait. Linux users "strike on their own" all the time!
Who here is a Linux user and never downloaded stuff outside the repo, or compiled sources and run them without reviewing every security loophole? Linux users are the most "demand-ey" of users, even starting flamewars over being forced to do things this way or that way!
I'm really skeptical that this wouldn't introduce malware if malware authors deemed Linux a worthy target.
You want to be cutting edge, but not get cut.