Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

[Stephen Ryan]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 20:07 -0400, Arc Riley wrote:
> I'm trying to understand why a majority of people on this list find it
> acceptable to /recommend/ hardware only supported by proprietary
> drivers

You actually did a remarkably good job of explaining it yourself:

> nVidia 3d acceleration is only supported with proprietary drivers

These work.

> Radeons have a comparable price/quality comparison and are supported
> by free drivers builtin to the Linux kernel, Mesa, Xorg, DRI, etc
> using specs released from ATI/AMD

These don't.  

I don't expect that to always be the case, but for somebody with 3D work
to do today, that's what it comes down to.

> IMHO, every lug across the country should be crying to boycott nVidia
> until they join AMD, Intel, and Via in releasing specs, if not for the
> market pressure than for the pragmatic element of not needing to
> install proprietary drivers to make something as basic as accelerated
> video work.