Haven't had Windows freeze on me for ages. I had a frozen linux server that ran out of RAM yesterday.
This has so many variables that it's practically useless as a data point. We have a few Ubuntu VMs running complex business web applications and their Postgres database on only 4 GB or RAM and 20-50 GB of storage, no swap space. Ocassional high load, but Zero OOM problems for many years.
We could upgrade the RAM, but we were stingy when we created them, and it has worked well so far, so why waste resources? Incidentally, using no swap was a deliberate choice, as it would slow things down too much. We preferred to see and correct any memory/OOM issues beforehand, but fortunately we had none.
Running out of memory on a linux server sounds more like a skill issue than something comparable to how a desktop OS should behave :\
Thing is that I never know this could happen. As a Windows user I'm used to a system that does stuff in the background without knowing how it works.
My Linux VM's can be broken because I'm in charge and I'm a noob. I kind of love it. I've learned so much from troubleshooting.