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Originally posted by remm View PostIf you are happy about the Linux software and consideration Nvidia gives you, feel free to buy or continue buying
That's not my situation, I find Nvidia's driver to be buggy, unstable, and annoying to use, so hopefully you won't mind if I walk.
Now, I don't like the fact that it's proprietary- but AMD's stuff still isn't there yet for most people and actually DOES seem to be buggy, unstable, and annoying to use. Until AMD gets it's act together or Intel delivers a decently performing device, NVidia's about the only game currently in town for most situations in 3D. If you don't like that, bug the crap out of AMD to get their drivers shored up or lend a hand or get someone else to do it on the FOSS drivers for their parts.
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I'm still wating for my 8600gt to support the same TVout features my 6600gt did. The TVOverScan option does aboslutely nothing with my 8600gt, and the overscan is WAY off the edges.
mostly @ remm:
I bought an HD3650 to replace my 8600gt but fglrx 8.3 seems to love completely crashing my computer (I need to try it with 2gb/ram instead of 4, but taking out memory to use a video card is not high on my list of acceptable solutions). fglrx may not be a whole lot better than Nvidia's blob, depending on your setup. When I've been able to get it working 2d performance (dragging a window) is appallingly slow. I'm patiently waiting for radeonHD to progress a bit more, and fglrx 8.4.
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Originally posted by Kano View Postremm: Most users would switch to nvidia from ati, but maybe you are more lucky
That's not my situation, I find Nvidia's driver to be buggy, unstable, and annoying to use, so hopefully you won't mind if I walk.
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remm: Most users would switch to nvidia from ati, but maybe you are more lucky
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yet another boring release
I am still waiting for decent 2d support on my 8600m which is still rubbish. So much for investing in a decent gpu:
http://www.popsci.com/gear-gadgets/a...-graphics-card
seeing that old crappy intel gpu's do the basics properly thats probably what I'll get, that or an ati card
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Looking at the gotcha list that I'll run into when I update to Fedora 9 in a few weeks, I am now convinced this closed source driver is beyond lame. When the time is right, I will replace my 8600 GTS with an ATI card (most likely a 3870), there's no way I can keep on dealing with this madness.
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NVIDIA 173.08 Linux Display Driver
Phoronix: NVIDIA 173.08 Linux Display Driver
Last week it was exclusively reported by Phoronix that a new NVIDIA binary Linux display driver should be out in the next week, and sure enough we were right, again. The NVIDIA 173.08 Linux driver was released last night and features support for several new NVIDIA GPUs, including the GeForce 9800 series, experimental support for X Server 1.5, and a number of fixes with Linux 2.6.25 kernel compatibility.
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