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"When someone tells me they have an Nvidia board and ask for help, my first advice is to buy a decent computer..." Wow. Do you find that many people keep liste

"When someone tells me they have an Nvidia board and ask for help, my first advice is to buy a decent computer..." Wow. Do you find that many people keep listening to you after this or is this just a strategy to free your time of annoying "people"? The *nix community is generally quite friendly, but it doesn't grow faster because of statements like this. Sure, maybe it's a valid opinion but hell, at least explain why they should care!

rbanffy 15y ago
> Do you find that many people keep listening to you after this or is this just a strategy to free your time of annoying "people"? Works both ways. It's good advice for one, because you really shouldn't support hardware makers that really don't care about you or the software you run. It also helps by making the more annoying people who can't be bothered to read the supported hardware list, yet ask for free support and complain driver developers are one or two generations behind Nvidia (or ATI's) employees with access to confidential information, go away. BTW, I have a T-shirt that says "no, I won't fix your computer" too. > The *nix community is generally quite friendly Indeed it is. Sometimes a friend is someone who says stuff you need to hear, even if you don't like to hear it. If you really care about your Nvidia board, please, by all means, learn everything you can about it, about driver development and help the people who give you their time for free.