[nevcairiel]

Anecdotal evidence doesn't prove anything. In my personal experience, AMD/ATI has caused more issues with their drivers then NVIDIA, especially for HTPC usage. But then i also usually run recent hardware, which drivers are usually more optimized for. My HTPC has been running just perfectly with NVIDIA, while i had some minor issues with an AMD card i used for a few month, until NVIDIA released a new generation.

But does that prove that NVIDIA drivers are better? Probably not. All i know is that the HW decoder in AMDs cards is inferior to NVIDIA (both in speed and features, eg. even in latest generations a driver had to disable 4K decoding on AMD because it was broken), but if that matters for you is only something you can decide.