Really? I wonder your crashes had to do with a driver for your hardware? In 10 years I’ve only had a handful of freeze-ups and only one “kernel panic”. No viruses.
I’ve had a whole lot of “glitches” where things just aren’t perfect. The screensaver and the audio settings have had nagging gotchas on and off for years.
The Linux desktop experience isn’t perfect but it is fast, stable and secure.
I have a laptop with a bad hard disk. I’m thinking about replacing the hard disk and putting LM17 on it.
My Mahjong game (Gnome) freezes regularly with Ubuntu. (and they screwed up my favorite game and renamed it “same game”)