I have a 780G with the HD3200 integrated on it (I don't use it I use a 9600 GT), but I have tried the 3200 a while back and it wasn't bad on fglrx. I tried various 3d applications and games and everything seemed to work just fine for the most part. While compositing at the time was iffy (can't speak for it now as I have no idea), not having compositing doesn't break the experience, its just a bonus.
I think the "quake 3 almost works" argument is a little outdated (by like 2+ years) at this current time though, it definitely works well on fglrx and has for quite some time.
As far as my thoughts on my 9600 GT.. I have used this card for over a year and it has worked pretty well. It feels pretty unstoppable on Linux from a performance standpoint as there isn't much out there that challenges it as sad as it is.
However, if I were forced to buy a new video card right now, I would probably go ATI, just for the fact they have more attractive cards in the 100-200$ price range right now.
And as for things like this:
Yeah.. And you're just unbiased right? I smell nVidia fanboy. Why is it that nVidia fanboys are the most snotty pieces of.. Hmm, I'll stop there .
nVidia cards do have open drivers, they have nouveau but as you already know that's just reverse engineered and will probably take years until one could actually use it on a production machine. The open source ATI and RadeonHD drivers on the other hand.. Those will probably be very usable in the next 2-3 months. Around the time we see the big distros like Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and such, have them included in their new releases (Not the experimental crap in Fedora even though that was nice I guess). Infact I've already heard quite a bit of positive feedback about those open drivers, should be even better 2-3 months from now.
I think the "quake 3 almost works" argument is a little outdated (by like 2+ years) at this current time though, it definitely works well on fglrx and has for quite some time.
As far as my thoughts on my 9600 GT.. I have used this card for over a year and it has worked pretty well. It feels pretty unstoppable on Linux from a performance standpoint as there isn't much out there that challenges it as sad as it is.
However, if I were forced to buy a new video card right now, I would probably go ATI, just for the fact they have more attractive cards in the 100-200$ price range right now.
And as for things like this:
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