I tend to agree with you, I don't think any windows users would claim that windows is perfect but the linux community seems to push that about linux. There is no perfect OS to date.

this Thursday I received notification of a update required for redhat - 47 of them. If you were to not count bugs in the third party software there would be very few, linux is just a bundle of software, each part is by a separate vendor and a lot of things run in the background even if you don't use them (therefore update may apply to you anyway). A lot of the third party software in linux does things that are integrated into windows. (for example samba and I sopose you should also count the GUI(gnome?))