"One of the often cited reasons for not switching away from MS Windows is it's breadth of commodity hardware support. The argument often goes something like this: 'Since Windows supports all the hardware I have why would I want to risk it not working under Linux? It's better to continue to use what I know will work.' While that may be true in and of itself, I'm finding this argument to involve a limited outlook."
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Member since:2005-07-06
Yes, I consider ATi's hardware to be very high quality. It's their driver department that consistently drops the ball.
I had a Radeon All-in-Wonder I used in an Athlon XP box with Windows XP Pro. Nice card, but after a few days, crap would start to appear on the screen, then the system would eventually crash. After restarting, it would almost instantly start with the crap on the display.
Reinstalling the driver would sometimes cure the problem... for a few days. I tried new drivers, I tried old drivers, I tried beta drivers... nothing would cure the problem for more than a few days.
After months of pain, I FINALLY found something I could install that cured the problem PERMANENTLY - Fedora Core.
Member since:2005-07-06
and thats the point, even excenlet hardware may have crap drivers.
but as long as the drivers are open then they will continualy improve. not just as long as the company that makes the card think its cost effective to do so...
yes this most likely means a slowing down of the scycles of development but i must say that for me that would be nice. this rollecoster ride that tech have been for a while is just getting silly.
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2005-07-23
Yes, I consider ATi's hardware to be very high quality. It's their driver department that consistently drops the ball.