Do you think graphics drivers on Linux are less bloated? You have the option of the generic graphics drivers like MesaGL that are probably not hardware accelerated, or a bloated driver from Nvidia or whatever, so you have the same problem when you want to do "anything graphical". I can just use the generic video driver that comes with windows if i'm concerned with drivers being bloat. I wont play some AAA game with that but neither will the non-bloated Linux graphics drivers.
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James Ortiz
mesa is hardware accelerated, it handles all hardware acceleration for intel gpu's now and i think it's handling radeon too, or atleast it can handle radeon.