Thoughts of a user

[James McKenzie]

On 12/26/10 2:47 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/25/2010 11:33 PM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
>> 1) Looks: Forgive the curse-words, but Linux has been surpassed in looks
>> by as far as I can see all other OSs. I don't know all, but Windoze and
>> Mac all look better on lesser graphic-cards.
> You are joking, aren't you?  I don't know what you mean by "lesser
> graphic-cards," but I have a Toshiba laptop with Intel graphics and F 13
> that I use as a showpiece.  All of the Winderz fanboiz and the
> MacFanatics are blown away by the desktop cube and what it can do.  Then
> I tell them that it's only available for Linux and watch their faces drop.
Intel is famous for their poor quality video drivers for Linux.  Just 
run Wine with notepad and you will have some idea on what I am talking 
about.  Some of the more famous games that were ported to Linux don't 
work there either.  The recommended solution:  Get a video card with 
high quality Linux drivers.  Right now nVidia is leading the pack.

Even compiz complains when run on Intel 'on-board' video systems.

James McKenzie