I've been using a Linux desktop with KDE 4.x for the last 5 years. The kernel itself isn't unstable. It's the userland that's (relatively) unstable. Most freque

I've been using a Linux desktop with KDE 4.x for the last 5 years. The kernel itself isn't unstable. It's the userland that's (relatively) unstable. Most frequently, it's the desktop environment that has issues. I've experienced more crashes and behavioral bugs with KDE than I have ever in either Windows or macOS. I also tried Unity (Ubuntu), and it too frequently had userland services crash and burn. Now, Enlightenment / GNOME / LXDE / Xfce / Xmonad / etc, might be more stable. But I decided I would rather have the richer and far superior UX of KDE (i.e., in my personal opinion) and take the hit of its relatively high bugginess, rather than leave KDE for another (likely less nice UX) desktop environment. But in terms of actual day-to-day usage, Linux + KDE has worked out pretty well. Every application I care about runs on it: * Firefox * Google Chrome (allows me to watch Netflix) * Spotify (<- this one's critical) * Most IDEs: Android Studio, IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, RubyMine, Eclipse, NetBeans, Qt Creator, etc. * Most GUI text editors: Sublime Text, Atom, Visual Studio Code, etc. * Practically every commonly used dev tool (gcc, clang, python, java, ruby, etc, etc.) & less common dev tools (e.g. GitKraken). * A lot of Steam Games + Humble Bundle indie games * Microsoft Office (works perfectly and easy to install with PlayOnLinux) Everything that matters to me runs perfectly on desktop Linux. I literally can't think of anything that I need that only runs on Windows or Mac. And Linux is so much more configurable than any other OS, which comes handy for certain things.