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I couldn't complain enough about Linux with Nvidia cards... The worst part is, my card is something like 8 years old now (The old Dell is still going strong as

• marshray 15y ago
  I have a 2 year old laptop with Nvidia. The driver installer is surprisingly smart (and not in a bad way). I have working accelerated OpenGL 3.3. It doesn't suck, as far as tained kernel modules go. I wouldn't expect miracles with an 8 year old card though.
  • exDM69 15y ago
    Nvidia does a decent job with new GPU's when it comes to 3d and basic graphics. It did a good job with the old GPU's too, but I guess the old drivers aren't maintained a lot. However, the Nvidia binary driver still lacks some features when it comes to multiple displays, etc. HDMI connect/disconnect does not work on a laptop. There's no Xrandr support yet, so hotplugging displays and screen rotation, etc is not quite there. X has to be restarted more often than I want. I've heard they're working on Xrandr and other stuff. I still think that they should be open sourced, though.
    • marshray 15y ago
      HDMI connect/disconnect does not work on a laptop Yes, it's annoying having to live with this. However, I don't ever have to restart X. I can use the nvidia-settings app to switch it manually. The ability for me to script the monitor configuration is missing though. I have to click around with the mouse like a lame MS Windows UI.
• rhizome 15y ago
  Heh, yeah. I have a lowly 8400GS, so it's not like I'm just whining about the bleeding edge.