Linus vs. NVidia

[Jamon Camisso]

On 19/06/12 12:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 06:10:44AM -0700, William Park wrote:
>> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/torvalds_curses_nvidia/>
>>
>> Does that mean I have to replace all nVidia card with ATI? :-)
> 
> If you want something worse, then yes.
> 
> Nvidia is very mcuh not linux friendly, but they do release very good
> working drivers for linux as quickly as they do windows.
> 
> ATI doesn't seem able to make reliable drivers for linux at all (and
> whether their windows drivers are reliable is debateable at times).

When I bought a 6850 card, the older Catalyst ATI driver that I was
running supported it before it was included in a newer Catalyst release
officially listing the card. I was impressed.

ATI is not the company it was 10 years ago when they gained their
reputation for crappy drivers.

In the end I like the Intel video cards as well because they works
pretty flawlessly as others have noted.

Jamon
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