Windows however tends to blue screen when consistently.
No, it doesn't..................if that is happening then it usually isn't a Windows problem but something else which Windows can't handle.

Examples would include:

1. Flat CMOS battery
2. Defective USB device or connection
3. Faulty HDD
4. Faulty Videocard
5. Faulty HID
6. Wrong driver or conflict
7. Applications conflicts
8. Norton ()
9. Corrupt Windows installation (usually failing hardware or mains power supply glitches)
10. Faulty PSU

In the past, people have tried to run Windows with inadequate resources, which produces an unstable environment..........I am particularly thinking of Windows ME and XP here, as they were a quantum leap in resource requirements, and M$ were not totally honest in their requirements specs. Also with 9.x and ME more than 512Mb of RAM is likely to cause an unstable situation when you run a lot of Apps at once.

Just have a look in your BIOS settings.... is "Stop on all errors except keyboard" set to "on"?..... In the case of an OEM machine you may not have this option? in which case it is the default.

Now the beauty of Linux is that you have choices ranging from "Damn Small" and "Puppy" through to full blown commercial distros such as SUSE and Red Hat. Also, Linux distros tend to be far more configurable. With Windows you pretty much have to take it "warts and all".

all I stated was that closed source tends to warrant more security flaws and leave them unpatched longer than open source does.
Basically that is the law of averages at work............if you find a flaw in Windows you can use it to criminal advantage or to gain respect in the security community, and possible financial advantage. If you spend x months finding a flaw in Linux, you are just a geek who should get himself a life. People are not looking for flaws in Linux because there isn't any money in it.

Windows does have the advantage that patches and updates can be received and installed automatically, which suits your average home user. Also there are tools such as Secunia PSI and File Hippo that will check your system for security patches and applications updates.