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Win 11:
On my main system, Jan 2022
On a travel laptop (Surface Go 3) Sep 2022

0 BSODs to date.
I was getting about 1 BSoD per week, until sometime around early 2022. In the past 6 months, I've probably gotten zero.

It was so bad that I kept a spreadsheet of all the error codes and other details, but no pattern emerged. All the hardware diags checked out, including multiple passes of memtest86. It's not dirty power, either. This is a laptop and it's powered through an APC SmartUPS (PFC-compatible) which everything else plugged into it has no problems with.

I think part of the problem is that Microsoft treats Windows as a vehicle for delivering their cloud services, and not as a product in its own right.
 
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I was getting about 1 BSoD per week, until sometime around early 2022. In the past 6 months, I've probably gotten zero.

It was so bad that I kept a spreadsheet of all the error codes and other details, but no pattern emerged. All the hardware diags checked out, including multiple passes of memtest86. It's not dirty power, either.
If it's not possible to verify hardware fault like this, one may re-install the OS. If that doesn't help then test with a different OS for a while.
 
If it's not possible to verify hardware fault like this, one may re-install the OS. If that doesn't help then test with a different OS for a while.
Like I said, it's been completely stable for over a year. No re-install necessary!

Apparently, all it took was for Microsoft to stop adding new features to Win 10, so they could fix bug faster than they introduced them.
 
Like I said, it's been completely stable for over a year. No re-install necessary!
Right, I should of course had mentioned that unstability that appear just after an update is kind of an exception. Except that from a user perspective (your case), it isn't much you can do unless you manage to temporarily block any os updates ...