Nvidia sucks, sucks, sucks !
Kim Lux
lux at diesel-research.com
Thu Nov 9 21:05:20 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 20:44 +0000, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
> Kim Lux wrote:
> ame time as the kernel ?
> >
> > So I'd have to teach my mom to make sure to not boot the new kernel for
> > a few days and, as a matter of fact, check that the new driver is
> > installed before booting it. In effect, teach her to rpm -q
> > kmod-nvidia ? Yeah, that seems user friendly.
> >
>
> Let's be realistic here, Linux for the masses (of mums) is just a plain
> silly concept at the moment.
> If your requirements are simple (email, web) you should be able to get
> by just fine, otherwise you accept the basic fact that you need to be
> technically inclined or willing to be enlightened / learn.
Or we could *improve* Linux until it is a little bit more user
friendly ? Wow what a concept that would be !
> If i think about 1993 when I was installing Linux on a laptop from a
> stack of floppies, well I am really impressed with the situation now,
> so much *bling* in so little effort.
I totally agree with that. I wasn't around Linux in '93, but I agree
with the gist of what you are saying.
> Ranting and bitching because you are too lazy to be realistic will not
> get you anywhere.
Thank you for identifying a new personality trait for me that I never
knew I had. As far as realism goes, it seems to me that every other
driver installs without me building it.
> Besides Fedora is meant to be "a free operating system that offers the
> best combination of stable and cutting-edge software that exists in the
> free software world."
>
> Stable is good but there is that "cutting-edge" aspect you need to take
> into consideration...I am not a native English speaker but I do
> understand the standpoint there ; and you are playing with "testing"
> packages so stop throwing your toys out of the pram, grow up and become
> an adult. You might even get some fun along the way...
Once again thanks for clouding the issue by introducing the red herring
concept of stability and then using a metaphor that infers I am a
baby !
The nvidia driver situation has nothing to do with kernel age or
stability. You can go back to 2.4.x kernels and the problem is still
there. Would Fedora core 2 be stable enough for you ? Please name me a
distro/release that doesn't have this problem !
> Otherwise go get yourself a nvidia friendly distribution and stop trolling
Which would be what ?
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Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
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