>> And you are still pretending it provides that?

I've already explained that the nVidia binary driver has worked pretty much flawlessly for me over at least the last 10 years of running several different nVidia GPUs and several different distros on several different PCs. This is something I have directly experienced. It is therefore not just opinion open for being persuaded that I am wrong.

>> When you just admitted it wont even compile?

Unless you're using a platform that isn't a PC, (Which is completely outside the scope of this discussion) your point is meaningless. You seem to be very confused between the ability to personally compile something for it to be high quality/work properly, which makes no sense.

>> How do you maintain such doublethink without snapping something inside?

Seriously if you can make a logically sound point free of personal attacks then I will reply otherwise I'm leaving it here.

>> Linux has become a BETTER gaming platform than Windows

It pretty much always was. I remember hearing maybe 7 or 8 years ago how quite a few windows games actually ran faster under Wine than Windows.

The continuing problem is getting games developers to stop assuming everyone just runs windows on their PCs, and to release Linux versions too, especially for their premium games.

many if not most modern games are based on commercial game engines such as Unreal 4, so the developers are more like artists, mostly just designing assets and writing scripts rather than coding any directX or OpenGL code.

Many if not most of those games engines do already support Linux targets so producing a Linux version really should be a no-brainer.

>> Not surprising with a small sample and homogenous hardware,

You need to take a look around the internet. Its not just me, there are many different articles supporting that the nvidia binary drivers perform much better than nouveau. I can't even find one supporting nouveau over nvidia's own for stability and performance.

I do agree that trying to get a binary driver for one architecture working on another architecture would be crazy. Don't get me wrong, I totally support the idea of open source drivers for that and many other reasons, and I do very much wish nVidia would opensource theirs, or at least dedicate some significant engineering resource into making noveau as good or better than their own Linux drivers.

For me and the many others that just want their Linux boxes to work, rather than people who actually want to tweak broken driver code, or put up with consistent poor performance and crashes to make some ideological point, choosing to install nvidia's own binary driver over nouveau is currently a no-brainer.

The Mint devs need to get a grip on the fact that most of its users do just want their box to work instead of by default geting the philosophically more pure but actually way more broken driver.

>> The binary driver is a buggy POS on any system, and will never be anything else.

No it really isn't. i run it on several linux boxes all with different nVidia GPUs and they all work perfectly. By which I mean I've NEVER seen a crash using the nVidia Linux driver.

Novueau crashes all the time. On my laptop especailyl I can't even start it.

Even though this is a good step in the right direction, Nouveau still isn't even stable enough for general consumption, let alone seriously competitive with features or performance of nVidia's binary-only driver.

It annoys the heck out of me that Mint switched to installing nouveau by default and especially without any alternative graphics driver option at install time, as on my laptop at least, as soon as Nouveau starts it crashes and locks up the whole PC. Trendy political correctness for (broken) open source shouldn't ever trump a binary driver if it actually works better, or especialy if it is the only option that works at all in some cases.

Add on top of that the fact that Mint devs also removed Ubuntu's boot menu option to install Linux before X starts, means the retarded decision to use nouveau by default makes it impossible for me and presumably therefore many others to install Mint from scratch without some obscure and what should be completely unnecessary hacking every time.

If even just installing Mint is borked, its really going to put off people who are trying Linux for the first time.

No there really isn't.

If you really want a fair, balanced and equal world, there is no such thing as what some people choose to (divisively mis-)label as "posiitive" discrimination.

Any kind of discrimination Is still discrimination, just against a different group. (In this case, one that is to some people feel is more "socially acceptable" to persecute because they have strange prejudices that absolutely everyone of a particular gender/race is necessarily already over-empowered.

If this is how you feel then you need to stop generalizing and realize that not everyone is in the same situation just because they have the same skin color, racial background, or number of x/y chromosomes.

The world really won't get any better until we end ALL gender/race discrimination against everyone. We need to ensure everyone gets a truly equal opportunity, no matter what stereotypes you may feel justified to broad-brush an entire section of society with.

If more people of a particular group happen to choose not to take a particular opportunity (such as entering the tech field) then that is perfectly OK and should be celebrated as freedom of choice in action.

$1,000,000 - $2,000,000 for what is basically a transistor?
Wow.
I have some swamp land in Florida you may be interested in.

You said:
I really don't think there's any sexism on the part of the companies here.
Wrong.
You yourself pointed out that Yahoo are running upto double the percentage of females than even graduate, and that Google are actively trying hard to recruit, hire retain and promote more women and minorities.

Sorry but being biassed pro-female and pro-minority is not only sexist/racist, but is actually illegal according to USC 2000e-2.

I'm still accessing slashdot through dialup to compuserve's BBS you insensitive clod.

This is meaningless without knowing the gender/race ratios of suitable job applications.

Although I have no evidence to prove this, from my own long experience in the software industry I strongly suspect that high tech companies are actually NOT giving people a harder time getting in the door because of their ethnicity or gender. I am far more inclined to believe that the numbers of different groups actually employed more closely reflect the ratios of suitable job applications received in the first place.

If this is the case then the current balance is and should be seen as completely OK.

If qualified women and black people just aren't applying in as great a number as white males, the worst thing companies can do is artificially bump up their numbers by giving them an artificial advantage in the interview/selection process. Positive discrimination is still discrimination, just against someone that blind societal convention rather than actual fairness makes OK.

All Americans that still believe their "built In America === higher quality" brainwashing are currently paying for it over and over.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/1...

kinda makes you wonder why they are selling them at this point in time, and whether they know about something that is soon going to affec tthe price of bitcoins (beyond their own big auction).

...Yet more clueless beaureaucratic stupidity from the EU which further clearly demonstrates why all Brits should vote to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum.

Its not the drivers fault, or the engineer who installs the key mechanism, its the fault of a bad designer that the key hole is placed in a position in the cabin where the key could ever accidentally get hit with your knee (or anything else).

I've never had any problems with any/all nvidia cards under linux.
Its just plug and play. Just make sure you use nVidia's own driver not Nouveau.

My biggest gripe with Mint is that a few versions ago they removed the option to do a non-graphical install, and also switched to using Nouveau by default, which for some reason locks up after a few seconds on my laptop, meaning I have all sorts of issues trying to install Mint on it.