How it it a Windows issue that driver developers pack garbage with their drivers? If Linux supported loading 3rd party drivers (it mostly doesn't, and if Windows did that, the whole internet would be up in arms about Microsoft locking down their OS), it would have exactly the same issues.

This is basically the same as downloading a program, running it and when it downloads garbage on your computer, complaining that Windows are dumb for allowing a program to download garbage.

> How it it a Windows issue that driver developers pack garbage with their drivers?

Because windows update automatically installs the garbage when the device is connected.

Microsoft could control the content of the software it automatically installs, but they don't. That's the issue.