From a stability perspective I would. Linux had much more time to harden than comparable OS. From a technical perspective it isn't a real time OS and does come

From a stability perspective I would. Linux had much more time to harden than comparable OS. From a technical perspective it isn't a real time OS and does come with unnecessary functions that are probably not relevant to the application, but I think people underestimate the amount of bugs in embedded systems. Minimal OS or bare metal doesn't really matter much. To my knowledge there was never an incident where common OS was responsible for failure, but it has been a myth for ages. If it does fail it is probably due to a hardware defect, but a risk analysis would show a plethora of possibilities for fail safe systems.