On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:33:10AM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > The obvious point. On powerpc, the nvidia is a brick, so speed > comparisons are moot. BTW, on x86 under windoze, the Radeon card is > "slower," but definitely not "quite a bit slower." The radeon is a i don't have windows on any x86 hardware i own, so what do i care about it? same thing with MacOS and powerpc hardware. > Er, stick to the previous point. My gaming machine has a Geforce 2 > in it and I use the proprietary drivers and it works great. But you as great as WinME `works' > can't upgrade your software all the time. I probably wouldn't be > all that happy if I had to use it as my daily workstation, because > you have to stick to the version of X that the driver works with. > Except when running Q3, I pretty much use Windoze on it anyway. It > was a free, to me, but legal copy, I swear. If there are any > questions, speak to my lawyer. just subscribe to debian-user for a couple hours to see how badly the proprietary linux drivers screw you for stability and reliablity... even the heralded i386 arch. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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