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Maybe you are conflating the gui crashing with the kernel, or maybe it's just shitty hardware you have.

I'd be up to my neck with more work if it was generally true.

I've had kernel panic in nouveau GPU driver after typing reset into tty2. Crashes happen, and the more you deviate from the herd, the more crashes you will encounter.

Nouveau and the proprietary NVidia driver are both horrible sources of crashes. Don't confuse an individual driver with most of Linux. Where uptime matters, don't use hardware with crap drivers.

When's the last time you saw a server crash because of a bug in VFS, memory management, or such?

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