[NTLUG:Discuss] video card recommendation

[Ralph]

Howdy,
  But, neither of those scenarios fits.  For religion, I choose
Presbyterianism.  Open source is about long term reliability and respect
for the user.  The only 3D thing I can imagine doing is to use Compiz.
And Compiz is not really important to me.
  No hope of open source nVidia drivers, you suggest.  There is always
hope, young padawan.  There are projects underway for open source drives
for nVidia and ATI.  The nVidia project seems fairly well along, but ATI
has been good about releasing information recently.  So, there is even
good reason for hope.  I asked the question because I wanted to get
peoples experiences with the card in Linux and I thank everyone for
their contributions.  There has been even more information than I hoped
for.  The virtualization thread was a nice offshoot, too.
Good day,
Ralph
  
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 21:34 -0500, Steve Baker wrote:
> I think you have two practical choices:
> 
> * If you absolutely, utterly HAVE to have OpenSourced everything for 
> reasons of religion - then ATI.
> * If you actually plan on doing 3D graphics then you have to buy nVidia.
> 
> There is no inbetween - if you buy ATI (or anything else non-nVidia) 
> then your 3D graphics support will be utterly sucky.  If you buy nVidia 
> then you have no hope of getting OpenSourced drivers.   nVidia's Linux