Re: radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.

Kevin Kofler wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:


Kevin Kofler wrote:

Recommending proprietary drivers in general and NVidia in particular is a
very bad idea, they'll come to bite you in the ass sooner or later, and
with NVidia there's no alternative with OpenGL support. (Nouveau
reportedly works great for 2D these days though.)



I've been waiting for over 3 years now to get bitten......


Either you were extremely lucky or you didn't even realize your problems
were caused by the proprietary drivers or you're just putting up with the
problems (such as the driver not supporting the current Fedora when it gets
released, it happened several times with NVidia too) without realizing
they're avoidable. Probably all 3 of those.


In my case, none of the above...


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