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There is basically no nvidia drivers available for many modern mobile GPUs on Linux, so I doubt that Nvidia is more linux friendly than ATI/AMD nowadays.
by Intermediate 14y ago
There is basically no nvidia drivers available for many modern mobile GPUs on Linux, so I doubt that Nvidia is more linux friendly than ATI/AMD nowadays.
- CrazedGeek 14y agoWhich GPUs? The only one I can find that they're not supporting yet is the GeForce GTX 680M.
- Intermediate 14y agoAny that comes with Optimus. Nvidia's blob just don't see them.
- cdr 14y agoAMD is ruthless about dropping support for older architectures, which hits laptop GPUs especially hard. They're about to drop support for R600 and there's still lower-end devices being sold with those. Fortunately as noted above the AMD open source driver is pretty good, more than good enough for a laptop I would think.