Car enthusiasts spend a lot more time under the hood than normal drivers. You’ll find a similar effect here.

Install something like Linux Mint, maybe chase down a few quirks with your particular hardware (for instance, I installed a surround sound system with a fairly hot amplifier, so every time the motherboard turns the sound chip on and off there’s a loud pop, so I had to change a couple settings in some config files from 1 to 0 and Y to N, and it’s been fine ever since) and you’re pretty much golden until you decide to start messing with something.

There are extremely stable Linux distros, there are Linux distros that aren’t so stable, but come with newer packages. Which one you choose depends on what you want.