Does Linux’s memory management suck?

In the past week, my computer’s frozen over 10 times because I’m careless and keep running out of memory. At first I didn’t even know why it was freezing and thought my browser did it. (I have 16gb of memory)

The system works fine… until I open one app too many, at which point it just freezes and there’s NOTHING I can do but forcefully shut it down, every time.

I had an even more bloated workflow on windows but never had any issue with my ram, presumably because windows handles it better? And that is what this thread is about: does Linux’s memory management actually suck?