Crashing Emacs is a rare aberration, GNU/Emacs is incredibly stable, I really don't remember the last time seeing it crash on Linux. On Mac, that could happen, usually due to some .dylib misbehaving, also a rare thing. Don't ask me about Windows, I stopped using it completely and hope to never have to boot into it ever again. Some things in life are just not worth losing your breath over frustration. Anyone who says Windows 11 is not aggravating are out of their mind.
Sometimes, people conflate Emacs crashing and hanging, the latter can happen, but almost never requires killing it - you just send `pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs` from the shell and it unblocks.
Sometimes, people conflate Emacs crashing and hanging, the latter can happen, but almost never requires killing it - you just send `pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs` from the shell and it unblocks.