Video Drivers Are All That Is Holding Linux Back
The title statement is one that became immediately clear with the unsuccessful installation of Windows 7 Release Candidate on a machine of mine that has perfectly serviceable video with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and many versions of Linux, but no support from either ATi/AMD (onboard graphics) or nVidia (PCI Express card) for Windows 7.
These same graphics solutions that work well in general Linux distributions, don’t deliver the performance of optimized drivers in Windows, when speaking of game play.
About a year ago (relatively – not sure of the exact timeframe) we were told that AMD was releasing the source code for their video drivers to the Linux community. No such release cam from nVidia.
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