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Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29Posted Apr 22, 2009 16:15 UTC (Wed) by dilinger (subscriber, #2867)In reply to: Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29 by petegn Parent article: Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29
There's a pretty major difference between non-free drivers being installed by default (which means an end user isn't even going to realize that non-free drivers are installed, and problems will be seen as "Linux problems") versus an end user having to manually install a non-free driver in order to gain additional functionality. In the latter scenario, a user may actually realize that the lack of stability occurs after installing the non-free driver, and might therefore blame the driver (and pester the vendor to fix it).
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Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29 Posted Apr 22, 2009 16:32 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Welcome to the world of Microsoft. It's all too easy to blame the OS for grief caused by 3rd-party buggy drivers (or user-space apps). Of course, Microsoft tends to internalize this problem and fix problems themselves (according to this Raymond Chen blog post from several years ago about unsavory programming practices at a game software company).
Internalizing issues Posted Apr 23, 2009 6:54 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] And Microsoft internalizing all driver issues is not bad at all. In fact I would say that Linux distributors might gain a lot from this practice. It is also a great opportunity now that Microsoft has managed to forget it.
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