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There isn't that big of a reliability difference any more (if any) on two systems that are both stripped down server boxes. The biggest difference is that patching more often requires a reboot in windows than in linux (I reboot both anytime I patch but it's because I'm not in a business critical environment so I can afford to) but on a desktop box both have trouble and need rebooting from time to time. X is at least as flakey as anything short of a bad video driver that's native to the Windows GUI. Also apps are generally more flakey on Linux (really in X) than Windows. On a server box, unless you've got some crappy memory chomping code running both are super stable these days. On a workstation Windows is still a more stable better choice with less work even from a base install. That said due to some philosophical issues with M$ I still run Linux (Gentoo flavored) on 90% of my workstations.

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