On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 11.04.2012 23:16, schrieb [email protected]: >> >>> I use the nouveau drivers because they update themselves when you update the >>> kernel, and there's less work involved in keeping everything up to date. But >>> I can't comment on the nvidia drivers since I've never tried them. Nouveau >>> works well enough for me. >> >> See my other reply: Nikos hit the point. > > I actually changed to nouveau because the desktop performance of > nvidia-drivers sucked at the time. I still use nvidia-drivers in my > media center (because of VDPAU), but in my desktop I changed about > year and a half ago, and I'm pretty happy with it. > > Before that, I used nvidia-drivers for many years, and it was always > full of ups and downs; some versions worked great, others were barely > usable. The nouveau drivers have been consistently good, even for > small 3D use (things like Blender). > > If you don't use (modern) games, I highly recommend the nouveau > drivers. For a modern desktop they work great.
Relevant to the thread, I believe: "Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Approaches Stable State" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_linux_stable&num=1 Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
