[NTLUG:Discuss] video card recommendation

[Ralph]

Howdy,
  I have multiple reasons.  One is that I trust the open source drivers
more.  I crashed a system recently when I installed a XEN kernel.  It
turns out the XEN kernel adds a couple of things that the proprietary
driver did not support.  I rebuilt the system and just installed the
open source nVidia drivers.  The system has been fine ever since.  The
closed source drivers worked better with Compiz, but I can live without
that.  Secondly, I feel better about the system knowing it is clean of
closed source stuff.  I suppose some people would be fine with
ndiswrapper for their network drivers, but I never used it and think
that is the right decision for similar reasons.
Thank you for the feedback though,
Ralph

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 14:08 -0500, MadHat Unspecific wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
> > Kisner, Thomas wrote:
> >> My opinion is nVidia, if you don't mind using their proprietary driver.
> >>
> > 
> > Ralph (the OP) wants to stick with pure open source drivers.  Ideally
> > he wants the new Intel card... but it isn't out :(
> 
> Why stick to pure OS only?  I like to see companies providing support to 
> Linux.  Why refuse support?
> 
>