Re: [Trisquel-users] Why I'm leaving Trisquel

[onpon4]

I don't think it follows that because proprietary drivers are "better" than  
free drivers (in a shallow sense of practical convenience), hardware  
manufacturers are therefore more skilled at writing said drivers. In the case  
of GPUs, Intel only develops free drivers for its integrated graphics  
controllers, AMD refuses to publish a large part of their GPU specs, and  
Nvidia refuses to publish any of their GPU specs (although the Nvidia might  
shift to a position more like AMD in the near future, from what I've heard).  
It seems obvious to me that AMD's and Nvidia's proprietary drivers work more  
effectively because developers of free drivers for these GPUs have almost  
nothing to work with.

If anything, the amount of progress Nouveau has made with absolutely no help  
at all from the manufacturer is a testament to our community's ability to  
take care of the software portion of these devices ourselves.