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Over the last 40 years I've used Mac, Windows and various Linux desktops as well as the Atari desktop called GEM (used it in an early music studio), Amiga and BeOS. Probably a few more over the years.
I always go back to Windows because it has support for pretty much everything I throw at it and the OS isn't as bad as nerds want you to believe. Yeah, it crashes and gets unstable from time to time, but EVERYTHING does.
Everything does, indeed, crash; but the rate on windows is ridiculous. I was thinking the same way as you, but a year ago was given a windows laptop at work, which was my first windows device in close to 5 years ar the time.
It is, without any exaggeration, completely unusable compared to my tiny sway or hyprland desktop. Got a replacement laptop about half a year in - same nonsense. So hardware faults are ruled out.
Eventually made a deal and set up my favourite distro on it - all insanity went away. It might not run photoshop, but I don't need it. At least it doesn't crash every few days.
Many words to say a simple thing: people get used to software being shit. It's really nowhere near that bad if you leave windows environment.
I hate to say it, but maybe you just didn't take the time to learn Windows?
I've had the same pc running windows 10 day and night for 5+ years (I think I've literally had to reboot it 9 times in all that time), and it has never crashed. And I have RUN that thing ragged.
I started dual booting Ubuntu and Windows when I was 19 or so and when I'd go back to my Windows partition to do something I realized I had either forgotten or never learned a lot of how to navigate it. I opened it and went "Where is my terminal?" and then remembered cmd and started using it to look for a directory before remembering that's never how I'd done things on Windows. It was an odd experience.