OT: nvidia video for linux a good idea?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:39:01 -0700,
   Edward M <edwardm1 at live.com> wrote:
>
>After viewing linus disagreeable remarks towards nvidia in a 
>resentment way.  made me wonder if
> nvidia linux support has been decreasing over the years and i should  
>look into either amd,intel graphics instead or
>he is simply overreacting and nvidia support is not that bad?

What are you expecting out of your graphics card? Are you running graphics 
intense games, CUDA, off-line rendering? If you aren't using it for stuff 
that needs a powerful video card, any recent card should be good enough.

I am finding the intel embedded driver support the most reliable (sumwars 
doesn't crash) with free drivers right now, but I have pretty old graphics 
hardware.