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It is true that not every nvidia driver release has been flawless, I readily cede the point; however, there's a huge difference between a buggy nvidia driver and buggy catalyst drivers.
Typically, a buggy nvidia driver, like the current release, may lose some functionality... like riva tuner or the evga precision tool won't work. It's quickly corrected, either by nvidia or by a third party within hours. On the other hand, with ATI, buggy drivers usually mean "catastrophic failures"... followed by incessant blue screens and an inability to even uninstall the software by normal means... even for really experienced users who know their stuff... like skunksmash. These aren't solved easily or quickly because ATI, besides being notorious for writing bad drivers, is also know for being very slow to admit their drivers are bad.
I'm not talking out of my keister here... I've had a few ATI cards... hardware = great; software = teh suck... and yes, on more than one occasion I've had the uninstallable control panel issue... something that's never happened with nvidia.
Now, while I'm sure we could drum up an nvidia horror story, I'm also sure that we could drum up exponentially more ATI horror stories.