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At one point this was true, but that was many years ago.
Unfortunately, that reputation has kind of stuck.
The barriers are still too steep. My Ubuntu machine updated it's kernel and then refused to boot after that. I had to look up how to manually lock the old working kernel.
Windows has never completely broken itself on an update for me.
If that happened to my parents they'd be angrily driving to the shop to get another cheap windows laptop.
We have a phrase for a bricked windows install: it's called the Blue Screen of Death. It's not like Windows never gets fucked either.
I've personally never had such an issue upgrading Linux.
If you want anecdotes, I can give you mine about how the mouse simply stops working until i unload & reload the driver, or how the window manager shits the bed upon wake up.
Mac, Windows, Linux - they're all software, they all have bugs, someone is going to have a bad time with all of them eventually