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NVIDIA == support problemsNVIDIA == support problemsPosted Jun 30, 2008 14:11 UTC (Mon) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)Parent article: Nvidia Reiterates Position on Closed Source Driver (OSnews) In other words, if you use NVIDIA, prepare for serious support problems. And this isn't just a pretend scenario. Fedora users couldn't upgrade to Fedora 9, because NVIDIA couldn't be used with Fedora 9. We'll see more problems like this. NVIDIA doesn't "support" Linux, if by support you mean that you're likely to be able run your system well into the future. It has binary drivers that run on a few specific versions of Linux, but might not run in future versions. Any user with an NVIDIA card has to think several times before upgrading anything, even if it's a security update, because it may break their display driver. This isn't really just a Linux issue. NVIDIA has good technical specs, but I think NVIDIA's excessive secrecy results in terrible quality for everyone. For some info on serious problems with NVIDIA and Vista, see InformationWeek article, Ars Technica, and Mary-Jo Foley. 30% of all Vista crashes were caused by NVIDIA according to one report.
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NVIDIA == support problems Posted Jul 1, 2008 1:32 UTC (Tue) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link] While it's appalling that display driver related crashes together make about 50 % of the crashes, the number of crashes attributable to NVidia seems related to its popularity. For instance, the Steam hardware survey grants lion's share to nvidia: http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html If anyone knows a better data set, enlighten me...
NVIDIA == support problems Posted Jul 3, 2008 19:51 UTC (Thu) by dwheeler (guest, #1216) [Link] There are lots of market surveys for video cards, e.g.: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20071029062106... http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-1771-view-ATi-vs-Nvidia... The basic bottom line is that NVIDIA, Intel, and ATI are popular, but it's hard to say NVIDIA dominates the WHOLE market. NVIDIA is popular at the high end, Intel is popular on Intel chips (esp. laptops), and ATI is popular on AMD chips. I don't buy the argument that the large number of crashes is due primarily to NVIDIA's popularity. There are LOTS of complex devices in a modern computer. Fundamentally, if a particular driver is one of the primary causes of an OS crashing, then the driver is bad. By definition!
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