No, they're right. Linux systems don't panic because of broken drivers after an update, they keep running properly. FreeBSD sometimes completely stops booting

No, they're right. Linux systems don't panic because of broken drivers after an update, they keep running properly. FreeBSD sometimes completely stops booting on your hardware or turns unstable for no good reason. (search on google for posts from people who can't boot FreeBSD 8.x on hardware which was running 6.x or 7.x without the slightest bug) FreeBSD can crash your system because of an unstable driver after a major upgrade like 9.2 to 9.3. You can see they're right, "FreeBSD doesn't take your system down like Linux", it's much worse.