2008 Linux Graphics Survey Results

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 22 December 2008 at 08:42 AM EST. Page 4 of 6. 33 Comments.

The sixth question we asked Linux users was what display features catch their interest. Support for multiple display heads was the most popular followed by GPU power saving modes, TV-Out, and then output hot-plugging.

We also asked users how they configured their displays / graphics cards. The most popular way with over a 40% vote was manually modifying their xorg.conf. Trailing this was using a graphical utility such as nvidia-settings, displayconfig-gtk, or system-config-display. The third most popular way was using XRandR followed by a vendor-specific utility like nvidia-xconfig and aticonfig.


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