To be fair windows use to be this way too. You had the driver's from the manufacturer and then third party drivers. Was a big thing in the ati days.

And even in Linux you in the most strict of sense do only have 1 option for drivers if your using the manufacturers provided drivers.

The other option is "not supported" by the manufacturer. They work but frankly the only people who care are the paranoid people who take foss to a frankly unreasonable extreme.

For Nvidia you basically have the same experience on windows as Linux. You have to go get the driver's from them, and the default that comes with your OS. The windows generic or the open source for Linux. Work, but it's better to install the full driver.

For amd you just kinda default to the best on any sane distro so it's a non issue for Linux. Or for windows you just go install from manufacturer it doesn't come with your OS.