I’m working in education and will change to other vendors in the near future. That means all my students will do so as well.
Windows cannot provide feature parity for workloads that require cross compiling, AMD could at least support RHEL like the old days.
Have you tried docker or WSL2. Modern virtualization should make it possible to seamlessly run Linux while in Windows.
Just of out of curiosity, what parts of the University Program don't appeal to you?
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/university-program.html
You can get free licenses and donated hardware through this program.