> Yes, what you say is all true: we can take it up with
> vendors for driver support or purchase NVidia
> graphics cards. But the far more realistic
> alternative is just switch to Linux and not deal with
> it. From the point of view of a desktop, it's the
> best of all possible worlds: it's like Unix and one
> enjoys tons of software, open source or otherwise,
> your hardware will generally work, and there's a huge
> user base. It's called the network effect:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect.

>From the point of the desktop user, yes.

>From the point of the developer aiming at the highest volume
open-source OS, presently, yes.

>From the point of the developer aiming at high quality, portable
code, no.
 
 
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