I want OSS drivers, but what I pay for is hardware that works. I try AMD every few cards, and they still fail every time I try them, and so I gave up.

nVidia got into bed with Microsoft back in the original Xbox days and now the geforce line is inextricably encumbered by Microsoft. Allegedly their mobile (Tegra) line is freer.

If they based the whole decision on AMD then they deserve to make bad decisions. There's lots of OSS drivers in the kernel already, let alone supplied separately. AMD is just shit at drivers. Their windows drivers are also shit.

Think Johnny Mnemnonic, if you can keep the image of the movie out of your head. The theme crops up again and again, it was mentioned in Hardwired for example.

No way. I learned while sniffing glue that no knowledge existed prior to Andreessen rolling out Mosaic in 1993.

Do you have the intellectual courage to juxtapose the two cases, and see which passes even a cursory review?
The RS drivel did not. Errors of fact were evident from the beginning.
If you've been paying attention to the better blogs (e.g. written by non-Progressive lawyers) the whole John Doe case has been building for quite a while.
It's some twisted, fascistic business, and well worthy of your time.

You're apparently more knowledgeable than I, yet also silent. Yet I am keenly aware of my 100% guilt in this matter. I am burdened with remorse.

You probably know that the newspaper controls the headlines, and uses them in precisely the manner you describe. The question is, given the facts, do you dispute the characterization?

I've had problems with nVidia drivers on occasion, but not those kinds of problems.

The most important thing to do is research a specific card (or at least chipset) before buying it, especially if it's come out recently. When I got my 240GT (two cards back) it was not well-supported. I had to load a beta driver to get it to work properly, and the driver substantially misreported its characteristics. It's safest to buy a card which has been out for a while, which is also a good way to save money so it's something of a win-win.

I usually try to call the graphics side ATI so that when say something like "fuck ..." it says ATI and not AMD, because I rather like AMD's processors. I'm still rocking a Phenom II X6 1045T and I'm very happy with its performance, considering I paid $120 for it quite a while back and have no plans to upgrade it anytime soon. Maybe another video card next year... I went from 450GT to 750Ti on the advice of Slashdot, and haven't regretted it.

their integrated graphics are still faster than intel's, and the CPUs are plenty fast. if you're actually coming up against the limitations of the GPU, you're probably not CPU-bound anyway.

Compared to intel, it's like they just fell off the turnip truck yesterday night.

I've seen some references to nvidia HDMI causing audio problems, and people blacklisting snd-hda-intel to make it go away. If your motherboard audio doesn't depend on that driver, it may be a viable solution. That's all I could really find while I was looking for a citation for the above claim before requesting a citation (in a sibling to your comment.)

As I've said elsewhere I have an original m-Audio Mobile Pre USB and it works great with my nVidia graphics, but that's just one device and that proves little.

yes, that's normal. it's the same for everyone else.

The only car I've ever had stolen was a 1986 IROC.

We'll have to give it a few decades for facts to creep out, but if it turns out that BHO is the climax of a "soft conspiracy", and amounts to an attack on the country, I will be completely unable to register surprise.
Or maybe he's just a dickhead.
But I'm not sure he's all that substantially more evil than many others cruising at that altitude. The GOP hardly seems to miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity to set about reforming anything.

AMD drops support for old cards from their proprietary drivers with extreme prejudice. nVidia literally supports cards for years longer than AMD. nVidia also provides direct mobile driver downloads; AMD sometimes provides these, and sometimes hides them. AMD also took all their old architectural documentation down from their website, for a while there every search I made which led to a document on their site was 404ing. Fuck AMD sideways.