I used both Win95 and Win98 and i don't remember crashes with the OS itself or most "software" to be much of a thing, even though i was already doing some progr

I used both Win95 and Win98 and i don't remember crashes with the OS itself or most "software" to be much of a thing, even though i was already doing some programming (mainly Delphi) on it. I do remember games causing tons of issues, hard locks and "endless" BSODs where trying to recover just had you enter another BSOD - so you had to restart the computer and sometimes the FAT would be corrupted (but it was always some game-related thing that got corrupted). Windows 3.1 was way more unstable IME - that is an OS where i did lose work, but Win9x, at least when it came to applications, was much more stable and you could often recover. Though i think system stability also heavily depended on your PC, there were a lot of shoddy components during the 90s that created weird compatibility issues which manifested as BSODs or other weirdness. Fortunately that stuff seemed to improve dramatically during the early 2000s.