In my experience, you are still much more likely to get broken hardware support when updating kernels on Linux, though I have no idea why. I almost never see or experienced stuff like my laptop camera not working at all after an update on Windows, but it does happen on Linux. The same goes for GPUs, which can break if you update your kernel often.

It's not necessarily the kernel's fault but it's something that does happen often using distros like say, fedora.

I think the main difference is that Linux supports and runs on almost everything, but in a lot of use cases it will be a specific version of the kernel that will be used for a product's lifetime (for embedded products) or have every update very heavily curated through a third party like Red hat. In those cases, Linux is rock stable, far more than Windows can be.

But for regular, personal usage, I genuinely think that Linux does break more often.