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Strangely enough, I have been running Windows 10 for a year here at work and on three different machines at home, and haven't experienced a single crash on any of those.

About half of the 300 PCs we have at work run W10 (the rest runs W7), and I haven't heard about any instability problems with any of those, in spite of lots of special hardware drivers, updated all the time, and a large number of tools deeply intertwingled with the OS, such as a multitude of debuggers and hardware monitors.

But then: These systems are maintained by people who know how to handle Windows systems. They do not try to force the systems to be as Linux lookalikes as possible - that is bound to cause trouble. Just like if you try to manage a Linux box as if it were a Windows machins: Then it turns out that Linux is not quite as stable as rumours seem to suggest...

One morning a few weeks ago, a few dozen of our machines at work had restarted at the same time in the middle of the night, while the majority of the machines were unaffected. The restart affected both W10 and W7 machines. We never found a good explanation, and concluded that since it is winter time, with lots of snow breaking down trees that fall over the power lines, the power grid sometimes can't perfectly suppress the spikes caused when switching over to another distribution line, and we experience a small spike in the power outlets. Some PC power supplies handle this well, others are knocked out and cause a restart when stable power is again available.

We didn't investigate this further; most of our machines "survived". A couple of nightly builds had to be rerun, but going deeper into it would not be cost effective.
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