@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.