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I sympathize but I'd be reluctant. Intel is heavily involved in Linux and sees that their hardware is well supported.
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True.
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But while Intel is many things, a maker of top video graphics adapters isn't one of them.
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I agree. On Linux, I tend to desire hardware compatibility.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I just installed a graphics card in the machine I'm using at the moment - it came with Intel onboard graphics. That works well enough for some things, but Intel 3D performance sucks.
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The 3D performance is perfectly fine for most desktop oriented tasks. And the multimedia performance is pretty nice for such an affordable solution.
Honestly, Linux is possibly the worst choice for gaming, 3D modeling, and et cetera when compared with pretty much anything else
in the consumer space, so I don't fret over 3D performance. (I can't argue over the industry space, because I tend to deal with only the consumer side of things).
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The ASUS card is based on an ATI design. Performance in things like Google Earth is notably better. It cost me $40. I don't do a lot that uses 3D, but I do enough to justify the investment.
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That's cool! I have had the worst luck with AMD (who absorbed ATI forever ago) graphics cards and integrated solutions in Linux. In 12.04 there was no support for Power Management in the Open Source driver, so I was forced to use the incredibly horrible binary (fglrx) driver that had barely adequate 3D performance and indescribably poor 2D performance. A version or two later and the open source driver added rudimentary support for power management on the chipset that I had, so that was awesome. Performance was still bad, but at least it worked a bit better and the fans in my system didn't run full tilt nonstop (turns out the implementation of proper power management is REALLY important). And then they changed the supported hardware stack in the most recent versions which completely removed support from my chipset which is from 2010. 2010! And the binary driver also removed support for it. Lord, what an annoyance. So I had to revert that specific laptop back to Windows 7, which at least has stagnant, but modern drivers available for that chipset.
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I've been a computer guy for 30 years, starting on mainframes and moving across and down. I've spent a lot of time popping the hood and fiddling with the insides.
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That's awesome. I only got into the business 11 years ago after I got my BA in IT. So you have definitely seen quite a bit more stuff than I have. Even in the time that I have been working with this stuff it has changed SO MUCH. 30 years is practically 1,000 years in the computer world.
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But there's a limit to how much of that I want to do. I use Ubuntu these days because it does the best job I've seen in a Linux distro of figuring out what hardware it's being installed on, setting itself up, and Just Working that I've seen in a distro. I want to devote my time to using the system, not to fiddling to make it usable.
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This is me exactly. I settled on Ubuntu when Warty came out, and nothing has really tempted me. Ubuntu is the closest thing we have in the Linux world to a distribution that just installs, works, and is pleasurable to use.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The change in aspect ratio mirrors a change in the content displayed.
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Exactly.
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That's another annoyance here, as more and more software has started to use video to show how to use it. People, I can read far faster than I can watch. Give me a bleeping manual!
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Dennis
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I always get in trouble when I tell someone to RTFM!