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ATI vs NVIDIA drivers?

post #1 of 4
1/28/08 at 11:56pm
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Hi,
I'm about to get an Asus F3 laptop with either the 8600m GS or the ATI HD2600. In the past, I've heard about ATI drivers having horrible driver support for linux while nvidia had good ones. Has this changed in the past few years?
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post #2 of 4
1/29/08 at 12:46am
yes. at least some of the ATI specs have been released to the open source community, and from what I've heard ATI driver support in linux is much better than it used to be. It may be better NVIDIA's support soon.

I wouldn't hesitate to get a card from either vendor these days.
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post #3 of 4
1/29/08 at 7:32am
Yea, in the short term at least I think NVidia's drivers are still going to be slightly easier/better. Phoronix is a good resource for reading up on that. In the long term however if ATi keeps going on the path it is, ATi's will eventually end up open source hopefully and will likely be the better solution.

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post #4 of 4
1/30/08 at 4:27pm
Nvidia has had a longer more productive time developing thier drivers, they tend to be more stable and most often faster than anything ATI has put out (in linux). Thats not to say ATI is bad, just not where it needs to be yet, stick with NVIDIA atm if you are dabbling with linux...
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