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On Thursday 30 Jan 2014 15:25:47 James wrote: |
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> Nividia is a *VENDOR* that chooses not to provide information so |
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> drivers can be properly maintained, historically. ATI (AMD now) is a vendor |
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> who provides information so drivers can be maintained, even optimized, into |
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> perpetuity. |
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> Maybe you chose unwisely?............(get ATI next time) unless |
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> you have a valid reason for choosing a "prick" as your vendor? |
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I've used nVidia cards for many years. When I bought my first one (maybe 20 |
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years ago) ATI support in Linux was woeful, and the doggerel had it that the |
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hardware was less competent too, so I chose nVidia. |
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Since then I've seen more cries for help on this list from ATI owners than |
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nVidia, so it's not clear to me which is the better choice these days. Since I |
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don't do bigotry my choice is on technical grounds, and I don't need hardware |
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3D acceleration. So the jury's still out as far as I'm concerned. |
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Well, maybe CUDA might ramp up my contribution rate to BOINC projects a bit. |
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Again, no obvious winner. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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