I've never had a single crash ever running Windows XP on my two computers at home.
Maybe its you.
Same here....on three computers.....two laptops and one desktop.......
"Maybe its (sic) you"
Nope. Ruled that out. I didn't install any software that wasn't already tested to work on the images. These images were put together by the IT and CS gurus on campus.
And a lot of people had problems with Windows going down. The only difference between me and them was that I became fed up with it--to the point where I switched operating systems.
Not to mention that virtually everyone I know has had at least one major Windows crash. My mom's been lucky; though I had to nuke and reinstall Windows the week before.
And a couple of my relatives actually just went out and bought Macs. Windows kept crashing on their systems (never did figure out why)--irritated 'em so much they swore never to buy another pee-cee.
Finally with Windows, I can't rule out failure of the OS whereas with Linux and Mac, most problems are in fact user error.