Re: ATI or Nvidia

[Dan Serban <dserban@lodgingcompany.com>]

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Guillermo Garron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have my system as dual boot, Debian Etch and ubuntu Gutsy, I am
> asking on the Ubuntu list, which is my best option nVidia or ATI,
> actually I have an ATI Radeon X300, and I want to change it.
>

Difficult question as it is always just based on opinion and experience.
 I've had very good luck with both Nvidia and ATI.

> In your Debian experience which has better support?, I have read that
> nVidia is better, actually I had problems with Ubuntu and compiz, with
> Debian and the propietary driver, GoogleEarth works great, (no compiz
> on my Debian)

Nvidia by far, mainly due to ATI being tied to one kernel release and
their releases don't seem to target the newer kernels in a timely fashion.

> I would like to add if somebody is interested that I have tested
> Mandriva spring 2007 and that is the only distro tested by me (I have
> tested FC6, Centos5, Suse, Feisty, Etch) that recognized my two head
> ATI card, and even asked me which resolution I would like on each
> head!, and compiz and metize worked out of the box.

Sounds very ready-out-of-the-box, most distros strive to make the user
experience an easy one.  If you opt for ATI, expect some difficulties,
such as possibly downgrading your kernel, dual-head video corruption
amongst some other fun things.  Although as with everything out there,
google is your friend and can answer most of your configuration
questions both cards can work equally well.

To really answer your question: Nvidia == better.

> regards and thank you in advance for your help.
>

Hope this helped :)
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