It's not about the blame game. When asking a user that has no care, ideology or stakes in the game how "good" an OS is... if the OS crashes, that OS is likely bad.
Linux does crash. I've seen it crash yesterday. It depends on the hardware you're using.
When it crashes it's 100% a problem in kernel space. Driver issues, compatibility issues. It is NOT an app. The OS should not give the privilege to an app to crash anything else other than itself.
What you MEANT to say is Linux crashes less than before and likely never crashes for certain hardware.
OVERALL linux will still crash MORE than windows when you look at everything holistically.
Hardware designed for linux. What does that even mean? Does intel make CPUs designed for linux? No. You don't know what you're talking about.
All hardware on my system have drivers available from the manufacture SO ALL of the hardware is "designed" for linux. It's just like the OP said there is poor support. So there's bugs in the software because all bug fixing resources are aimed at fixing Windows issues. So basically even the THOUGHT of buying specifically designed hardware for windows is non-existent for windows because basically it ALWAYS works.
For windows the OS and hardware are designed to always work and that's all they care about. This is a major major feature that Linux DOES NOT have. Linux is inferior in every way on this aspect.
No user cares about the morality or the reasoning behind why this windows works with so much hardware. They are concerned with tools that help them achieve their objective. Linux is definitively worse than this on many aspects than windows OR OSX.
It does matter. But companies should not pick software solution with garbage Linux support if some employees are using Linux.
Nobody would pick a software that does not work on Windows and Macos.