On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > AMD has been great, with the exception of the K5's, and this last > Bulldozer fiasco. I have my hopes that AMD will get it together and put > out a better chip/architecture in the future. But everything they were > dominant on last decade has been matched by Intel, and they've been too > proud to drop back their pricing to the budget-pc realm. From their > conference addresses I gather they are betting the farm on the tablet, > ultra-portable, and custom processor markets. I don't know if that will be > a brilliant play based on genius-level market insight, or just one step shy > from formally admitting they handed the desktop and server markets to > Intel, for at least the next 5 years. > AMD was great, 5 years ago. Saying that Intel has been matching them on hardware the last 5 years would be incorrect. AMD has been releasing products that are inferior in almost every regard to current gen Intel and cost more. The latest bulldozer fiasco was just a continuation of that trend. I hope they get their act together because buying AMD products right now just isn't cost effective. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote: > > I disagree that it "almost doesn't matter what you use" if you're this > type of user. Nvidia is a clear disadvantage for casual and many types > of "power" Linux users. The nouveau developers are doing the best they > can with what they're given, but the open drivers for Intel and ATI are > far superior. I would also mention that, at least traditionally, the > binary Nvidia drivers have had poor support for xrandr, though I think > this might be better now. > > > xrandr is a mess and can't consider using it as a power user. ATI "supports" it, sorta. It ended up causing a lot of problems with setups i've done and i've disabled it, or at least tried. I agree intels drivers are better than open source nvidia, but I don't ever use open source Nvidia drivers. ATI drivers are just awful. If you don't believe me try to do the following with ati drivers:quad monitor setup with two multi head gpus as follows vertical, horizontal, horizontal, vertical. Oh and do it in less than 20 mins. If you get it working, i'd be curious to hear how well it performs. I wonder if they've added any decent documentation or fixed their GUI which constantly crashed and couldn't be used if xranrd was enabled.
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