On Wed April 6 2005 17:06, David Pastern wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 03:09 +1000, Derek Broughton wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 13:20, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 18:04 schrieb Petr Baláš: > > > > Biggest graphics "card" vendor is Intel with integrated chip sets. > > > > > > Vendor maybe but I really doubt that is has the biggest user base among > > > Linux users. > > > > Why? > > Actually, Intel is not the largest OEM video chip set manufacturer - ATI > is. Has been for some time, and in fact from stats I saw it's share is > growing. That said, ATIs Linux drivers are a laughable joke. > > > > Integrated graphics is like integrated sound: it works if you don't > > > expect much. But in case of e.g. distorted sound, you are better off > > > getting something real. > > > > The "average" user doesn't need a great sound system and super 3d > > accelerated video on their computer. In fact, I'd be surprised if there > > weren't more people using on-board video for Linux than for other OS's as > > we're not primarily a gaming community. I'm using i815 right now, i915 > > when the new laptop arrives in a week or so. > > Yup. I agree. The average user just is a monkey doing button clicking. > They don't understand what they're doing, they just have a routine of > click here, do this, click here, do that. Finish. Since I work in a IT > related support/helpdesk role, try asking Windows customers 'can you go > into device manager please'. See how many: > > 1. know what you're talking about > 2. Can find it > 3. Can find it in a reasonable time frame > > You'll be surprised (or maybe not) that the vast majority (>= 90%) > can't. And they're not interested. These sorts of users generally > aren't interested in fancy accelerated graphics for games, or fancy > positional sound either. They just want a machine to do the basics. > Email. Websurf. IRC. Chat to friends. Listen to some music here and > there etc. > > Dave
This thread is so far off-topic it hurts. Can we take it somewhere else, please? Thanks, Zack
