To be fair (and I&#x27;m really not a Windows fan), many of the BSODs on modern versions Windows can be attributed to shoddy third-party drivers.<p>And as a point of comparison, I&#x27;ve had tons of kernel panics on MacOS over the years, for various reasons. Sometimes defective hardware, sometimes odd software interactions, and sometimes for reasons I can&#x27;t explain.<p>Windows has a lot of problems. The kernel itself is not really one of them.<p>(That said, I still wouldn&#x27;t use Windows on an embedded device, much less a life-critical one. Even using Linux would give me pause in this scenario.)