Originally posted by efikkan
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I'm not going to be unfair about a couple of reasonable bugs in comparison, however what were some saying again about that non-crashing quality of the nVidia drivers?
It sounds a little like Apple fanboys when they say that Macs never crash and don't get malware.
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Originally posted by crazycheese View PostWhy would they bugfix openoffice then? fglrx targeted workstations as well and still it is non-comparable on desktop to nvidia.
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostI'm not going to be unfair about a couple of reasonable bugs in comparison, however what were some saying again about that non-crashing quality of the nVidia drivers?
It sounds a little like Apple fanboys when they say that Macs never crash and don't get malware.
So, well, I can use the card features. Not very energy efficient vendor though.
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Originally posted by efikkan View PostMany workstations have office suites. And anyway nVidia is not evil, they do fix an occasional bug for the desktop. What they lack is focus on desktop user oriented features such as profiles, optimus etc.
I think that they need to go into communication with community, they seriously lack linux pr(other word for lies ). Yes, and they screwed with optimus hard and screwed opengl on 4xx+ series. But the blob at least works very good.
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Originally posted by crazycheese View PostThat would be desktop or gaming stations then, wine etc run best on nvidia for years.
I think that they need to go into communication with community, they seriously lack linux pr(other word for lies ). Yes, and they screwed with optimus hard and screwed opengl on 4xx+ series. But the blob at least works very good.
Except for bugs and some lacking features, nVidia really does offer good enterprise quality drivers, and this is good for us desktop users (including gamers) as well. The performance is on par with the Windows drivers, and we need to remember the Windows drivers are far from bug free as well. If nVidia start focusing on the desktop as well, I think their drivers would quickly become even better.
What did nVidia screw up with OpenGL on GeForce 4xx+? My MSI N580GTX TwinFrozr II/OC works very well in Ubuntu 10.10 with 260.19.44, 260.19.06 did however create some interesting "effects" during load. Compared to fglrx, developing with nVidia drivers works very well, even though some driver versions have annoying bugs.
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Originally posted by efikkan View PostOfficially nVidia does not consider the GNU/Linux desktop to be significant, I hope this will change.
Except for bugs and some lacking features, nVidia really does offer good enterprise quality drivers, and this is good for us desktop users (including gamers) as well. The performance is on par with the Windows drivers, and we need to remember the Windows drivers are far from bug free as well. If nVidia start focusing on the desktop as well, I think their drivers would quickly become even better.
Originally posted by efikkan View PostWhat did nVidia screw up with OpenGL on GeForce 4xx+?
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Originally posted by thefirstm View PostThe NVIDIA blob has had KMS support for a long, long time. Much longer the the OSS drivers. It also supports running X as a normal user. If NVIDIA were to switch the blob to use the same method of acceleration as the OSS drivers, it would set them back years in terms of reliability, performance, and image quality.
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