I completely agree with you on this. "Linux culture" has an attitude problem that WILL prevent it from overtaking Windows if things don't change. Unfortunately, calling out this particular problem (especially among a Linux-ey community) tends to attract the worst of that attitude problem attacking those who see the problem.

> Open source drivers: poor performance, very stable, likely to not crash.

Actually, in my experience the open-source drivers for all my NVIDIA GPUs has been abysmally unstable. I couldn't even boot or install Ubuntu with the graphical interface, because nouveau kept freezing.

You could blame my uncommon but perfectly valid SLI GTX 580 setup for confusing the open source drivers, but the end result remains: the open-source drivers are inferior in every way except perhaps for the "open source" part (which is kind of meaningless if they don't work).