For most Mac users, there's a kind of consistency: It doesn't matter whether the drivers or the kernel are to blame; either way, avoiding Windows means avoiding the whole mess.
classy late downvote/reply/moving goalposts combo. Post was at +2 before your reply.
either way, you're proving the inconsistency. ATI drivers for windows suck, but you don't blame windows. NVidia drivers suck in Linux (to the point that Linus Torvalds says "Fuck you NVidia", creating news headlines), and you blame Linux.