My experience with NV on Linux is out of date, from 2003-ish (?) when the binary driver was new, to 2010, but I remember a few drawbacks I couldn't overcome and

My experience with NV on Linux is out of date, from 2003-ish (?) when the binary driver was new, to 2010, but I remember a few drawbacks I couldn't overcome and happily made the switch to ATI/AMD: 1) Closed driver 2) Weird incompatible multimonitor support called twinview? Where windows would maximize to stretch across all your screens 3) Abusive on the PCI subsystem, so that my sound hardware would experience underruns, both spurious and reproducible events such as during workspace switches 4) Lockups 5) Corruption/lockups switching between FB terminals and the X terminal I switched to ATI and the open source driver and all these problems went away.