@frostotron their drivers are frequently bad on the windows side, too. it's absolutely required to head over to r/nvidia whenever new ones come out to see if they're giving people ruinous problems or are safe to "upgrade" to.
i'm regularly six months behind because it's just not worth introducing all those random bugs and regressions into a stable system
i also had a really bad time with AMD 3+ years ago but i hear they're better now for win drivers. hard to believe, but who knows.
Nvidia rant Afficher plus
@alyx
I set up a friend's older AMD/Intel system on both OSes a few months ago. fglrx is totally obsolete, and the radeon driver is now better than fglrx ever was. The install process on Linux was just install the package and reboot. No awkward quirks or workarounds, just like a driver should be.
Honestly, though, I don't remember the Windows process so it must not have been much of a headache.