Well, for 2d work, ati should be just fine. The biggest advantage for Nvidia is when playing games, or even setting up more than a single monitor. I've had man

Well, for 2d work, ati should be just fine. The biggest advantage for Nvidia is when playing games, or even setting up more than a single monitor. I've had many issues getting two monitors to work on an ati card, but the setup is cake to achieve with nvidia's twinview setup. As for kernel panics, I've never had that issue with my last few nt cards, and ill usually see wine crash rather than the desktop or kernel. All that said, I wish ati developers the best of luck on making the open source drivers competitive with nvidia's binaries. I'd love to see them put some pressure on nv so it's not just a one horse race anymore...