Agreed, blue screens grew more and more rare for me in the XP days. I might get a blue screen once every few years now and I can usually trace it to a faulty driver or a bad memory module.

I use a Mac for work these days and the OS itself is rather stable. Some the applications aren’t, but I’ve never been able to bring down the OS itself, so far. These days, as long as we don’t buy our computer equipment out of the back of a van parked at an abandoned gas station, our computers tend to be pretty reliable. I’m with you though, phones and tablets haven’t caught up yet, and it’s not just cheap phones either. My crazy expensive Apple phone crashed once a week when I first got it late last year, and that was under pretty light use. My Android phones would do that about once a year, which is better, but below what I’d accept from a PC.

Got much better with NT 3.5 when I got a 486/66 in the end of 1994. Continue to use multi boot with Win 3.11, OS/2 and FreeBSD for some time. Got even better when expanded the RAM in my 486 from 4MB to 8MB (OS/2 was no problem for me with 4MB).

With NT 3.51 it improved both performance and also the device driver support to be on par with my OS/2 installation (first 2.11 and later Warp 3.0). Worked so well that it become my most used OS at that time (still had the others for multi boot option).

With NT 4.0 I got rid of the other OS:es and used only NT after that. Even bought my first laptop preinstalled with NT4 (DEC HiNote). Never look back.

Today I use both Mac and PC, and enjoy both systems very well (and occasional test of some Linux distros). I think that both macOS (High Sierra) and Win10 generally both very well and stable (it is more my phones and tablets that suffer from instability at times).