Linux seems really intolerant of bad RAM

Kind of a mildlyinteresting post but I've been using a top of the line laptop from 2009 with 8GB of bad RAM for the last few days and linux would struggle to keep going for 4 hours before a complete freeze and a hard shutdown was required, meanwhile Win10 just keep chugging on like nothing's wrong.

Both sticks of RAM are bad and there are also a couple of nvidia GPUs in this thing; it's on Leap15.

Did Microsoft go out of its way to shield its users from the crashing so that they wouldn't get the blame, or has Linux not evolved these abilities yet, or is it Nvidia's fault?