OT: nvidia video for linux a good idea?

[Roger]

On 19/06/12 03:13, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:06:49 -0430,
>   Dokuro <dario.soto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm a Blender user, and I kinda need the good video cards and good
>> drivers, in Fedora & Gnome-Shell I've used the free divers but AMD is
>> getting worse by the second, I was thinking going Nvidia but now Intel
>> might have to do it...
>>
>
> My impression is that Intel does not produce graphics cards as 
> powerful as nVidia and AMD currently.

I'm using a, what was 3 years a go, high end Geforce 6800gts video card 
with Blender no prolems with either the nvidia 173 driver on Ubuntu or 
the Nouveau driver in Fedora 16 and have no problems.
My daughter has nvidia card in her new Toshiba laptop running Ubuntu 
12.04 , nvidia driver and  is Blender teacher, she has no problems.

  No one in my family uses AMD because everyone has had problems when 
using Blender or high end 2d graphics manipulation, RAW files.
The on the mother board Intel video driver is pretty useless for medium 
to high end 2d graphics and won't handle any 3d graphics for more than a 
few minutes.

Roger