I have used nVidia and ATI\/Radeon video adapters in various computers over the years. I find that ATI\/Radeon are by far the best and most compatible adapters for Linux for the types of things I want to do.<\/p>\n
The nVidia drivers I have found to be sadly lacking in overall support and functionality. This is a direct result of the fact that the advanced drivers are closed source and the Open Source nouvaeu driver developers have no access to the hardware documentation.<\/p>\n
ATI, on the other hand, has provided much more cooperation in the way of documentation to the Open Source community and the ATI\/Radeon drivers are far more capable than the nVidia drivers.<\/p>\n
After recently spending a few days fighting to get the proprietary nVidia drivers running on my primary high-end workstation with a high-end nVidia adapter so I could use the OpenGL desktop effects, I gave up and purchased a new, high-end ATI\/Radeon video adapter. After installing the ATI\/Radeon hardware, I was immediately able to configure and use those effects.<\/p>\n
The built-in ATI hardware also works fine on my Thinkpad laptop.<\/p>\n
So my recommendation, at least for now, is to use ATI\/Radeon display adapters rather than the nVidia. I plan to avoid nVidia hardware in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have used nVidia and ATI\/Radeon video adapters in various computers over the years. I find that ATI\/Radeon are by far the best and most compatible adapters for Linux for the types of things I want to do. The nVidia…<\/p>\n