And yet it still BSODs on me too often to be actually usable.
And yet it still BSODs on me too often to be actually usable.
Windows isn't a closed hardware platform like OS X, so driver support can be difficult (Windows update helps a lot on that).
Also, are you overclocking? Using a 4-year-old motherboard? There has to be some reason for BSOD - it's not a normal condition. Not making excuses, hundreds of millions of machines run for years without doing it.
I use Linux.
Nowadays, with the experience of handling dozens of Windows machines both server and client, I can tell you with a high degree of confidence that BSODs happen only when hardware is dying or a driver is buggy. The flavors I can confirm this for go from XP SP3 to Server 2008, passing through Server 2003, Vista and 7.