Hey, Larry. Is that you?
Whatever.
[...]I've not had any problems with the binary drivers from NVIDIA under Linux. They just work.
On the other hand, nobody could pay me enough money to run AMD graphics cards in Windows and suffer using their Windows drivers. Admittedly ATI made major driver quality and stability improvements around the R300 launch, but not much has improved since then. And that's 8 long years ago.
You neglected to mention the ATI/AMD Linux driver situation. The proprietary driver works for about 1 out of 32 models available and it will panic the kernel faster than Steve Ballmer can do a monkey boy dance. They are orders of magnitude worse than the Windows drivers.
that they are reasonable, thoughtful people, intent on a peaceful resolution, and not a criminal use of force and intimidation.
But not these guys, huh?
It is too late; their guns are drawn and the barrels are smoking. You might even say, "Greedo shot first.'"
now if video cards run under linux were more than just framebuffers we might go someplace.
Linux already had pretty solid 3D support going all the way back to the Vodoo1 days. Yeah, sometimes you needed to take a little care to buy a card that actually worked in Linux and not just the next best random piece of junk, but that isn't really that that much different from Windows where when you don't take care you might be stuck with some unusable on-board graphics solution.....
Well, given that ATI and Nvidia make the only video cards that can go faster than 20 FPS It is even easier since ATI's 3-d support has never worked in their proprietary driver.
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[prays]
Oh please, please let there be a "nitrous gas" option. That would be totally AWESOME!
There's always the "methane gas" option but not when you have visitors, PUHleese.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
