On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 03:09 +1000, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Wednesday 06 April 2005 13:20, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2005 18:04 schrieb Petr Baláš: > > > Biggest graphics "card" vendor is Intel with integrated chip sets. > > > > Vendor maybe but I really doubt that is has the biggest user base among > > Linux users. > > Why?
Actually, Intel is not the largest OEM video chip set manufacturer - ATI is. Has been for some time, and in fact from stats I saw it's share is growing. That said, ATIs Linux drivers are a laughable joke. > > Integrated graphics is like integrated sound: it works if you don't expect > > much. But in case of e.g. distorted sound, you are better off getting > > something real. > > The "average" user doesn't need a great sound system and super 3d accelerated > video on their computer. In fact, I'd be surprised if there weren't more > people using on-board video for Linux than for other OS's as we're not > primarily a gaming community. I'm using i815 right now, i915 when the new > laptop arrives in a week or so. Yup. I agree. The average user just is a monkey doing button clicking. They don't understand what they're doing, they just have a routine of click here, do this, click here, do that. Finish. Since I work in a IT related support/helpdesk role, try asking Windows customers 'can you go into device manager please'. See how many: 1. know what you're talking about 2. Can find it 3. Can find it in a reasonable time frame You'll be surprised (or maybe not) that the vast majority (>= 90%) can't. And they're not interested. These sorts of users generally aren't interested in fancy accelerated graphics for games, or fancy positional sound either. They just want a machine to do the basics. Email. Websurf. IRC. Chat to friends. Listen to some music here and there etc. Dave -- "It takes a special kind of genius to be able to tell someone to go to hell in such a way as they end up thinking you wished them a pleasant journey."
