OT: nVidia driver [was: Wish list]]

Sean seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Wed Jun 8 01:10:44 UTC 2005


> Why so angry. I think that you should really get off the religious
> kick. I for one have been using Linux for an extremely long time. I

Why is it always the nVidia zealots who accuse everyone else of being
religious?

> also use the Nvidia propritary drivers. Why you ask? Because open or
> closed they are clearly the best drivers for X. For most people  who
> do actual work on their boxes, functionality matters more than a
> religious kick :-) .  Also I want to run the latest hardware & not

Yeah, and what "work" are you getting done with your binary nVidia driver
that couldn't be done with an open source alternative.   My guess,
nothing.   Have you even tried the open source nv alternative?

> something that is 7 years old with crappy performance, just to say
> that my system is all open source. We have all asked Nvidia to open
> there drivers, but they insit on staying closed source. Since they
> keep up with kernel releases & fix the drivers when there are breaks,
> I personally have just gotten used to it. I install them and I don't
> have any problems. There drivers clearly surpass all drivers in X when
> it comes to features. Maybe one day Nvidia will wake up and release
> there drivers open source, but until then I have as of yet to see
> anyone who can match their drviers...especially ATI.

BS.  Obviously you have to overstate the facts (ie. there are many open
source cards newer than 7 years old) to feel like you can defend your
position, typical nVidia zealotry.  Get over it.

Sean





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