[zeugma]

Have never had a BSD failure or unwanted re-boot. Everyone experiences "glitches" like a machine freeze every once in a great while, but it's usually "operator error" rather than OS fail. They run half a dozen or more programs simultaneously, run their machines w/o ever rebooting, etc., ... and they do it with 512mb RAM ... and then blame MS (not that I would defend MS).

What do you mean by "once in a great while. My computer generally runs from one kernel upgrade to the next (5-6 months, if not longer. Now that I'm EOL on the version of Fedora I'm running, I don't expect to have to reboot until I decide to upgrade to the next level, or I lose power for more than 30 minutes.  I fully expect, absent something external (like extended power loss), for my desktop to run for a year or more without issues. I've had workstations go that long without issues that were acting not only as my primary desktop, but as serious batch processors for data reporting and management that have gone that long before I ended up rebooting due to a move or something similar.

I really don't expect my desktop to fail absent actual hardware or power failure.

[oh8eleven]

Now that I'm EOL on the version of Fedora I'm running, I don't expect to have to reboot until I decide to upgrade to the next level
We're talking Windows stability and you pop in with your "divine" Linux experiences. Sigh. BTW, you forgot the obligatory - I don't use AV programs either. More sighs ...
I've run Kubuntu on different systems over the last few years and they too have the once a great while freeze - say, once every 6 months.
Linux is just not as bulletproof as too many try to tell us it us.