Trust me, there are alot more free, open-source applications made exclusively for Linux. That isn't just image editors and stuff, games, too. It would seem like most applications are for windows, because you never tried Linux (apparently)
I have used both Linux and Windows quite a lot.
Nothing is exclusive to Linux, since there is A) a pretty small market share, and B) most stuff is FOSS so someone has ported it to Windows already (yes, there are a few exceptions, but that's because that stuff isn't used by anyone anyway). And in my experience Cygwin has worked way better than WINE. That said, Linux is great for almost everything (that I've tried) except for video editing and gaming.
Oh, and it's actually fairly stable nowadays, on this comp I've actually never got a BSOD. And when you get one,
all BSODs are caused by faulty drivers, not Windows itself.