I'd say it's the opposite, Windows gamers are more used to this. I think by now one of the biggest parts of Nvidia/ATI drivers are patches and workarounds for c

I'd say it's the opposite, Windows gamers are more used to this. I think by now one of the biggest parts of Nvidia/ATI drivers are patches and workarounds for certain games. Add the patches to the games themselves, and you've got a very fragile landscape. I've known a lot of people who aren't upgrading certain games and drivers for fear to upset their fps rate, mod compatibility or overall stability. Heck, there are people keeping older PCs around just for that, so you can e.g. run your Skyrim LE with Win7 and an older DirectX release etc. "Retrogaming" is quickly approaching a very small time delta. I guess that's the price you have to pay for performance and availability. Games shouldn't be that brittle, but any fast-paced industry is likely to run into those problems, and with high-speed internet patches and a GPU duopoly, fixing it is too easy.