Strong disagree, my experience is that app crashes are extremely common on Linux if you step outside of official repositories; I say this as someone who literally only runs Linux and nothing else. I'm not necessarily saying Windows is better but... it's not like nothing ever breaks. It's impressive how well developers are able to hold it all together, but my experience is that Linux systems are fragile the moment anyone stops actively managing the dependencies and putting in the work to compile everything to match.

> that is not packaged by the distro maintainers

It is not feasible or scalable for Linux for every single app (even every Open Source app) to be distributed and managed by the distro maintainers. And this is what I'm getting at with dependency isolation -- the vast majority of crashes and bugs I see on Linux (and I mean by a massive margin) are all due to dependency mismatches and shared dependencies. A lot of Linux software is generally stable if the system looks like what it's expecting the system to look like. But if you're not going through an official repository where a bunch of volunteers are putting in the work to make it consistent, then it very often doesn't look like what developers expect.

This is why people run games through Wine instead of using the Linux versions -- it's not because it's impossible to build good native versions, it's because if they don't use the Linux version they can use Bottles. That's the biggest reason; it's about the dependency isolation.