Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica) [LWN.net]

Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica)

Posted Dec 13, 2009 3:43 UTC (Sun) by kragil (subscriber, #34373)
In reply to: Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica) by elanthis
Parent article: Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica)

Interesting comment (I even read all of it :)

I really hope you are right about Gallium, but it will probably take years for Gallium to penetrate the minds of all developers and execs.

I totally don't agree with you about Nvidia. They suck. Their cards suck (twice the transistors, half the speed, double the power) and their windows driver was responsible for the majority of Vista crashes (like 30% or 40% ..not 100% sure though) .. yeah great developers.

I hear how bad ATI drivers are supposed to be, but on Linux they are FOSS and on Windows they always worked for me the last few years.(I have been ATI exclusive since 9800) Today I would not use Nvidia.

And MS has a lot of cool people, no doubt. It is the negative effect the Windows monopoly has on the world that really pisses me off and makes me avoid them at all cost. But Windows is fine for certain people(Mostly Gamers not connected to the internet ;)

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Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project (ars technica)

Posted Dec 15, 2009 11:00 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>I totally don't agree with you about Nvidia. They suck. Their cards suck (twice the transistors, half the speed, double the power) and their windows driver was responsible for the majority of Vista crashes (like 30% or 40% ..not 100% sure though) .. yeah great developers.

Would that have been on x64 by any chance? I have noticed that the 64-bit drivers only really caught up with 32-bit in the last year or two, although I only noticed visual glitches and some performance issues in certain areas. The only crashes I've ever had in Vista were due to godawful drivers for one of those hateful Speedtouch monstrosities.

Nvidia cards do have a slightly lower performance per watt, though not by much if you compare like with like, but still win in terms of absolute performance.