A Look At Why Linux Graphics Drivers Have Issues

[RonJohn]

That's a joke, right?

One thing I noticed: If you don't want to use MS Windows, stay away from Nvidia hardware...

Nvidia drivers have been great (though obviously not perfect) for years. Much better than the laggy, buggy and multiply-confusing AMD drivers.

Anyone who wants good 3D performance in Linux knows to use the nvidia binary driver. Anyone who wants GPU-assisted video playback knows to use the nvidia binary driver and the vdpau library.

[russofris]

Interesting chart. The article is short on analysis and meaningful hypothesis. The chart colors appear to have been chosen by a tetrachromat.

[RCL_]

What? Im using 260 gtx with linux whole time, but only when I had 4770 I had to boot into wincrap.

So my experience is opposite: If you don?t want to use MS, stay away from AMD hardware. This does not include Optimus though, which in essence is Nvidias greatest fail. :/

Exactly - NVidia has very good drivers which are *almost* on par with Windows ones feature-wise (except for DirectX-specific features).

Open source drivers seem to be lagging - if not for NVidia, Linux as a platform would be much less attractive to people who are interested in realtime graphics (not that it's particularly attractive at the moment, but it could have been worse).

[crazycheese]

I would just say, it's mostly used.

One thing I noticed: If you don't want to use MS Windows, stay away from Nvidia hardware...

What? Im using 260 gtx with linux whole time, but only when I had 4770 I had to boot into wincrap.

So my experience is opposite: If you don?t want to use MS, stay away from AMD hardware. This does not include Optimus though, which in essence is Nvidias greatest fail. :/

[AJenbo]

uhhhhm...so why do they have issues? also why does it look like that all drivers have peaks at the same time everytime?

The chart is cumulative so maybe you are looking at it the wrong way.

[DanL]

Read the chart's title...

Oh, thanks.

[LinuxAffenMann]

Read the chart's title...

[DanL]

Where are they getting these (ridiculously low) numbers? At the moment, there are 289 bugs for fglrx-installer: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...glrx-installer

[disi]

Intel is the most bugged, but I already knew it

I would just say, it's mostly used.

One thing I noticed: If you don't want to use MS Windows, stay away from Nvidia hardware...

[Detructor]

uhhhhm...so why do they have issues? also why does it look like that all drivers have peaks at the same time everytime?