<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Enrico Tagliavini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enrico.tagliavini@gmail.com" target="_blank">enrico.tagliavini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1ti" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">well you might be lucky enough not to need proprietary drivers and<br>
this add a lot of benefits both in practical terms and also in ethics<br>
if you believe in free software. That said if you don't support<br>
proprietary driver you basically cut out people from using Fedora. The<br>
only and main reason I don't suggest Fedora to my friends starting<br>
with Linux is it misses NVIDIA proprietary drivers support and<br>
bumblebee packages [1]. Granted there is rpmfusion for the drivers....<br>
but bumblebee is another story. The repo mentioned in the fedora wiki<br>
is not really up to quality standard, at all. But I digress.</div></blockquote></div><br><br>RPM Fusion support for Nvidia seems OK, but support for Catalyst/fglrx has been nonexistent in Fedora 20-22.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My hardware (2013 HP laptop) eventually "aged out" of needing fglrx/Catalyst, and running the open Radeon is less trouble, for sure. But for new hardware, it's sure nice to have Catalyst (and I presume Nvidia) around and packaged.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But I've accepted that the Fedora Project doesn't want proprietary graphics drivers in its archive, and would really (really, really) prefer that its users refrain from using them.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Even when packaged by RPM Fusion, the Catalyst driver is a pain to use in Fedora because the kernel is updating so frequently. Installing it from upstream is even worse.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Luckily Radeon driver and Linux kernel development moves so fast that after a year I was able to successfully run w/o Catalyst. But that first year was hell.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I've been running Fedora on this laptop since F18 because it was the best on this hardware at the time, and I love Fedora. But if Catalyst was important to me, I'd be looking elsewhere (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu ...).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">While Fedora is plenty stable overall, it's not so stable when running Catalyst because AMD is so far behind and Fedora is moving so quickly, so for those reasons -- plus Radeon's great strides in recent years -- I don't miss it.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But there is no love for Catalyst among Fedora contributors, or somebody would be packaging it for RPM Fusion.<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Steven Rosenberg<br><a href="http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog" target="_blank">http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog</a><br><a href="http://blogs.dailynews.com/click" target="_blank">http://blogs.dailynews.com/click</a><br><br></div></div>
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