Running Linux on computers with Nvidia hardware proves that Linux and Windows both have their problems dealing with device drivers. Linux’ benefit is that is has higher standards because the kernel devs need to sign off on driver, but that has downsides of turning away potential driver developers (as getting your code into Linux is a quite a complex thing just on its own). Linux also doesn’t have many drivers in general it seems, unless your device has some kind of generic fallback that disables any special features.

My kernel panics generally don’t display anything, the display just freezes and I need to force reboot the computer.