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I knew Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was going to make a difference. I've been using it in my desktop and I love it, everything works out of the box (sound, video, etc), and

I knew Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was going to make a difference. I've been using it in my desktop and I love it, everything works out of the box (sound, video, etc), and you can find anything you want in the software center. Now I only use Windows for games.

mbell 14y ago
Unless you have an AMD graphics card, in which case you get to deal with all kinds of corruption in general desktop use.
- marshray 14y ago
  Or an Nvidia, or an Intel, or ... All accelerated cards have had their share of bugs.
  - muyuu 14y ago
    Intel run pretty flawlessly. They're just comparatively underpowered for gaming.
    - marshray 14y ago
      That has not been my experience, but admittedly it has been many years since I bought anything with Intel graphics.
- krzyk 14y ago
  Opensource radeon driver is pretty good if you don't need 3D. I would actually say that it is much better then the AMD one - there are no problems with suspend and the card initializes more quickly.
  - lucian1900 14y ago
    Yes, except for power usage. The blob is much, much better at keeping my laptop's battery alive.
  - muyuu 14y ago
    I take it you will need 3D if you are in the market for Steam. I also went through all sorts of hell with proprietary AMD/ATI drivers, and I needed them for OpenCL. To this day my Desktop is a pain to use but OpenCL works fine. Sadly they make the best cards for this purpose by far, otherwise I would get something else.