Sorry, I give up to preach *ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 19:32 +0200, Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> 2008/11/7 p.daniels <carl1086 at morris.umn.edu>:
> > On Friday November 7 2008 12:52:53 am Ali Milis wrote:
> >> $ export GIVEUP
> >>
> >> Well... GeForce 7100 GS users have been stranded away
> >> for too long. How on earth, can I  recommend/preach a product
> >> that sometimes work and often don't?!
> >>
> >> I myself have no problem, since I can google most of my own
> >> problems. But unfortunately, this is not a product for beginners
> >> and laypeople
> >>
> >
> > You know, I said the same thing about two years ago. So I did it. I gave up on
> > Nvidia, I sent them a letter telling them why, and I'm a happier person today.
> >
> > best wishes-
> > pete
> >
> 
> i'm a tolerant person. i'm giving them till february to release some
> KDE4-compatible driver, if they don't, won't do it, i'm off to ATI, and
> i'll of course, let them know why as well. every company that
> disrespects it's clients, force them to use certain software, OS, or
> other crapware deserves to be abandoned!

I see plenty of problems reported with ATI as well, in gaming and doing
3D graphic design, in the user-group maillists. The nVidia users, like
myself, have no problems. I'm not sure what the beef is, but I do run an
older nVidia card, a 5700 with 1/2 meg of vram. I use the nVidia driver
installer using EnvyNG which works like a charm. When I used Fedora, I
just installed the nVidia supplied driver package manually. Using the
third party packagers I had problems. Major problems doing really tight
3D virtual environments. NVidia has been good for me, so I don't know
what problems the OP had. Ric

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