nVidia vs. ATI

[Francois Ouellette]

ATI always had excellent hardware but very poor drivers, on any platform I
know! The best product they had was probably the old EGA wonder :-)

For years I bought ATI cards for my machines and last year decided to give
up and switch to nVidia, which offers imnmensely better software and
support. Unfortunately...

 François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>


> I am in the process of writing an new article that
> deals with video cards which I hope will be published
> on the Linux Journal website.
>
> As part of the article I will need to offer
> suggestions as to what sort of video card to buy. Now
> I like the idea of promoting firms that are based in
> Canada, and even better firms that are based in the
> greater Toronto area (and video card builder ATI with
> it's headquarters in Markham counts).
>
> However, all reports I have seen give ATI (very) poor
> marks for the Linux video card drivers (compared to
> nVidia), and reports of ATI Linux install issues are
> also discouraging (compared to nVidia). So the
> question is can I suggest people seriously look at ATI
> as reasonable Linux option?
>
>
>
> Colin McGregor
>
> P.S. Just out of curiosity how many people on the list
> have written for/been paid for computer related
> publications over the past year? If Marcel Gagne is
> still on the list he would take top prize. I know
> Chris Johnson, William Park and I have, who else?
>
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