On Sunday, October 23, 2016 11:28:45 AM CEST Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Jus to debian-kde list: > > Am Samstag, 22. Oktober 2016, 20:49:03 CEST schrieb David Baron: > > Just maybe it be time that plasma worked correctly with Nouveau. Nouveau > > is > > beautiful for everything else. > > > > At least, Debian folks are maintaining that, not dependent on Nvidia to > > maintain for legacy devices they would rather forget. > > Issues like this are the reason why I do not buy NVidia based desktop/laptop
I, myself, stick to the very same rule, I thoroughly shun everything NVidia, even in hand-held devices, like phone, even though the OS is Android, viz. non-free, whenever possible. I'm very grateful for all the other manufacturers who provide open specification: Intel, for a start, and... Chris PS: Not very long ago I had a Dell Precision M4300 laptop which was doing well with Nouveau; the laptop was subject to unexpected shutdown regularly, often when using Firefox, but it might have been unrelated. I did bought it when I was not yet aware of the NVidia shunning policy. There is also this very good graphics device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch, which many tend to underestimate. > graphics at all, basically following a simple rule: Either the driver is > free software or I am not interested *at all*. As its difficult to write > well working drivers when the manufacturer of the graphic chips does not > help very much by providing specs, docs and developer resources, I stick to > vendors that get it mostly right regarding free software (currently Intel, > but certain AMD chips / cards may be just well as well). > > Of course that only helps with newly bought hardware. And it doesn´t help > gamers who want high enough FPS and late enough OpenGL support even for > demanding games. I just stick to games that work well enough with my current > hardware. > > Thanks,
