> In effect, if you wanted to run linux, you were best off without NVIDIA. Depends on your choices. I guess if you throw Intel in there as an option, then mayb

> In effect, if you wanted to run linux, you were best off without NVIDIA. Depends on your choices. I guess if you throw Intel in there as an option, then maybe. But as of 4 years ago, if you were running a desktop -- Nvidia was pretty much the only acceptable choice if you wanted discrete graphics on Linux of any form, IMO, and driver quality was a massive part of why this is true. Optimus, though -- that's what was really the debbie-downer for Linux/Nvidia, and Optimus is what inspired the question which lead to Linus's "Fuck you" rant, because Optimus support was so bad, and is still bad. But the mainstream cards have worked fine for a long time, and, at least for me and everyone I know -- were the only acceptable ones for Linux, until relatively recently, and most certainly as of ~5yrs ago. As opposed to AMD, where I don't think I ever heard of a single instance of fglrx ever being anything but a nightmare.