On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, a...@alphanet.ch wrote: > Hi, > > I am a debian user and I am looking to buy a new computer (I will > build it). > > I simply wonder if it is better to take a graphic card with an ATI or > a NVIDIA chipset. > > Can someone please give me an advice ?
I've always gone with nvidia graphics cards and motherboard chipsets as nvidia fully supported Linux early on, and were less problematic, regardless of which distro I was using at the time. And I've used and tested quite a few. Initially (I've been using Linux for about 12 years--switched from the Amiga, not Windows), I used the proprietary nvidia drivers as the open-source Linux drivers were "experimental" at the time, and had problems, but about 6 or 7 years ago when I built my current system, I decided to test the open-source nvidia driver nv, and found it worked just fine for my purposes. Only recently with my switch to Wheezy 64-bit from Fedora 12 64-bit have I returned to the proprietary nvidia driver for no other reason than to see how it compared to nouveau. No problems. But currently I don't have any 3-D stuff, so can't test that. Nouveau didn't support 3-D anyway. Since you're building your system, one word of advice: regardless of what hardware you choose, make sure it's been on the market for at least six months. That gives "the community" time to write drivers and other support for it. If you go with just released, "cutting edge" hardware, you're going to have problems until the software can catch up. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130624094824.70c47...@debian7.boseck208.net
