There are lots of other type of users. People designing embedded systems, people maintaining long term projects etc.
The thing we probably don't care about you, since you will just go install the binary driver from nvidia site. Most users probably just want their desktop/laptop to work out of the box.
at least from a corporate point of view, you get what your IT dept buy.
You haven't looked at 3D programming in 15 years then?
Its just like a CPU, you build shader programs, and optimsing the shader programs requires compilers and writing good compilers is hard and costs lots of money.
Also the other reason is patent infringement, they are all infringing on everyone, just like the rest of the mobile space, so they don't want to make it that easy to show off what they are doing.
Though neither of these reasons are really valid but lawyers and crap engineers like to keep themselves looking good.
if you weren't slow, you'd have done some research, and worked out the taint name is used for a lot of things and predates the binary drivers.
But I suppose being an idiot isn't your fault, probably genetic.
I use a MacBook Pro for my main machine, but also have a Ubuntu desktop. I get irritated about switching between command-oriented hotkeys and ctrl-oriented hotkeys (cmd-a on OSX = ctrl-a on Linux/windows). I've looked over a lot of forums and have found that Gnome doesn't seem capable of changing hotkeys, while xfce and fluxbox can. The ideal solution would be a way to change system keys in X, or at the system level — that way I can keep compiz. Does anyone have any ideas or know a trick to change system hot keys?
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