Originally posted by xpander
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* Or unless you don't want to be stuck on old software. fglrx doesn't support xorg 1.12 yet.
* Or unless you want good xrandr support. With fglrx it kind of works but occassionally fglrx just breaks things. With one release HDMI output simply didn't work. Occassionally it would simply report wrong resolutions to xrandr. It even managed to put 1024x768 as a preferred resolution at the top of the list. While there was a 1600x1200 preferred resolution also in that list.
With nvidia. Well, just watch videos from conferences where people with linux notebooks try to hold presentations. I have the feeling that their nvidia twinview fails more often than it succeeds at displaying the right resolution on a projector... Of course without proper xrandr support you have only basic rotation support. Try connecting one external screen to a notebook and rotate that screen without fiddling with the xorg.conf...
* Or unless you want bugfixes faster than at least 3 months. fglrx and gnome3.
But hey, I think after some time AMD has managed to fix the behaviour that a 3d fullscreen application would be always render in front of everything else, despite not even having the focus - on all workspaces - in some cases even when minimized (!). Took them long enaugh.
* And of course unless you don't want to use Optimus.
That's just the few that come to my mind immediately because I have experienced them all first hand.
The experience is just so much more pleasant with the Open Source driver.
@ Michael
Why don't you wait with writing an article until you have enaugh data and permissions to actually write an article?
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