[hirundo]

> It's kind of funny that this is often brought up as some achille's heel of linux but honestly my Windows PCs have always been larger headaches.

Same. I switched to Ubuntu a decade ago when my Windows machine started displaying the blue screen. Somehow the motherboard itself became incompatible with Windows overnight even from a clean install. Instead of junking the board I put Ubuntu on it ... and it's still my daily driver a decade later. And though there have been issues I'd say less than I had with Windows overall.