[xubuntu-users] you have got to be kidding me

[Pasi Lallinaho]

On 06/12/2012 05:53 PM, dekks wrote:
> On 12/06/12 06:16, Greg Zeng wrote:
>
>> "nVidea is known to be problematic"
>>
>> In my stupidity (reading forums only), this what I thought too.  My
>> systems have AMD and/ or integrated Intel CPU-GPU.  My 'buntu-based
>> distros easy scales on my non-Nvidia hardware to 2D-1080p.
>>
>> Trouble starts when I try the 3D & other speedier upgrades.  Various
>> AMD/ Radeon drivers 'upgrades' usually fail, perform poorly and/ or
>> buggy.  Visiting the AMD site, they loudly acknowledge this.  On
>> related forums, the problem is that few if any hardware designers will
>> consider PC-Linux optimization.  Linux PCs are the one-per-cent
>> losers.
>>
>> Until Linux coders (generally unpaid or poorly paid persons) get
>> better organized, synchronizing their efforts instead of re-inventing
>> crazy, incompetent clones, then Linux PCs (not servers) will be the
>> low-grade, incompetents that they are now.
>>
>> I use 'buntu 99% of my time.  Essential, extremely uniquely valuable
>> stuff is Win7-64 for me.  One-per-cent genius, 99% boring tedium.  I
>> want 'buntu success, but Linux lacks proper organization for the
>> masses.  Mass markets demand that the Marketing Department is THE BOSS
>> of the organization.  Linux PC == Anarchy.  "-(
> Seeing as a lot of the newer graphics chips are loaded with patented /
> copyrighted hardware & software [ e.g S3TC texture compression] Linux
> drivers will never be as good as windows unless the hardware boys
> themselves keep up driver parity by writing up to date binary drivers
> that most distros will use.
>
> Unfortunately we hit the chicken/egg scenario, until there are good 3D
> hardware accelerated drivers which create the demand for good Linux
> games [not poor clones of late 90s, early 2000 console games but native
> WOW, Halo etc] which generates sales so the marketing droids demand 3D
> drivers [loop ad infinitum].
>
> It's nothing to do with the ppl creating the free AMD/Intel/NVidia
> drivers themselves, they can't write drivers if there are legal
> restrictions and/or no documents on API's etc.
>
> regards.....
>

Let's end this discussion with this post. If you still have problems
and/or support questions, please post with a new subject line that
shortly describes the problem.

Pasi

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