In a market where you can watch your shares drop 30% overnight, how can you tell your shareholders with a straight face you are doing what is best with their money if you refuse to embrace such a large part of the community? Open up the drives so we can use our hardware any way we want, and in turn your computer techs and purchasers will recommend your cards.
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#1 by Vadim P. on July 6, 2008 - 1:52 pm
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Are you posting this from an nvidia card? x)
#2 by Alex on July 6, 2008 - 2:52 pm
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I’m posting this comment on a machine equipped with a GeForce 8800GT and running KDE4. Good God, it’s slow. Yakuake, the indispensable Quake-style terminal program, takes about a second to display, switch terminals, etc. On my Intel-based notebook, it’s way faster, despite a slower CPU and orders of magnitude less processing power in the GPU. If the driver was open source, I could at least debug it. I can’t believe how quickly I’ve gone from recommending NVIDIA (because their driver sucked less than fglrx) to putting NVIDIA on my do-not-buy list. I might buy a Radeon.
#3 by troll on July 7, 2008 - 5:06 am
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Funny. I have 8800GT, and it’s perfect. With the closed source drivers. You must be on the wrong side of the fence then I guess.
#4 by Jon on July 7, 2008 - 9:19 am
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I wonder just how many people really do avoid buying nvidia for F/OSS reasons who would have otherwise done so. I’ve just built a machine with intel graphics so I didn’t have to worry, but I wouldn’t have spent money on a wizzy 3D card anyway because I don’t need it. The Intel performance is still way to low to be comparable to the other players. There’s a good article on the nvidia / X 3D stuff at Linux Hater’s Blog you should check out.