Any sensible person (excluding obviously fanboys from one camp or the other) would have told you that neither ATI or Nvidia had ever had perfect drivers. And neither of them have crappy drivers. The truth is every once in a while Ati and Nvidia have problems in their drivers and they take their time to fix it.
Ati drivers generally are more stable than Nvidia's, but they take time to fix if an error comes up. Nvidia on the other hand has a plethora of beta drivers, and you are lucky to find one that works for your specific game but breaks the others. You generally have to wait months for a certified WHQL version.
I've had ATI since the 8500, before I used Matrox, and recently since the 7900 I started using Nvidia. Well the conclusion I've come to is choose the card for the operating system you are going to use.
On Windows ATI has always been superior (and has had less sucky drivers than Nvidia's, control panel notwithstanding), if you want to use any other non windows os then Nvidia is the only choice (for 3d support, energy management and performance etc...).
Choose the right tool for the right task, but never believe that Nvidia drivers are somehow divine-perfect because its a blatant lie.
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