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On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:40:35 +0100
bad apple <ifindthatinteresting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello bad,
>experience, pretty much all Nividia and AMD cards will be reliable,
>supported and entirely satisfactory but there are a lot of horror
>stories out there... Buyer beware, and do your research before giving
IME, which is admittedly a bit limited, the people making the biggest
noise with their horror stories have only themselves to blame; they've
failed to fully understand the job they were undertaking, and screwed
things up themselves. Of course, it's always easier to blame someone
else when that happens.
>Either way, Nvidia or AMD will require you to use their monolithic,
>closed, proprietary blob drivers. There are open source alternatives
nVidia, yes you have to use a binary blob, if you want 3D acceleration.
OTOH, the ATI/AMD drivers meet Debian's DFSG guidelines and, as such,
are in the 'main' repo, rather than 'contrib' or 'non-free'. From what
I can see, they don't pull any closed source blob(s) in. Reading the
supplied copyright notice indicates too, that the ATI drivers are freely
re-distributable and modifiable. So, open source.
>like nouveau but sadly they are always buggy and lack support for
Nouveau, like virus checking software, is chasing ever moving goal
posts; it's always going to be behind. :-(
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