Story-wise, go for both. Start a character in BG1, play to the end, import the character into BG2 and continue the story.
I wouldn't bother with the Tales of the Sword Coast addon for BG1. It doesn't add to the story. Playing it adds many hours to BG1, whereas you probably want to get to BG2 as quick as possible. I spent about 60 hours almost finishing BG1, then I added TOSC and spent about 30 hours on that.
I didn't have any stability problems with BG1, I played it without the patch.
Cheers
Craig
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