Nick Rout wrote:
their video drivers just go, and go well. [1] from what i understand, many other video card manufacturers do not even supply binary drivers. its not an ideal world yet for open source enthusiasts, and until it is, nvidia supply a good service to linux users in their video driver.
their network drivers are stoopid - errr i need to download the nvidia network driver to get my network going so i can download.....duh.
[1] problems seem to arise when people don't have the kernel sources for
their distro present, or they upgrade kernels. its NOT nv's fault that
many distros do not ship the kernel sources in the default configuration.
Yes it might be a PITA to have to install a compiler for just one or two
tasks on an otherwise binary distro.
