Re: MSI RS482M4-ILD (Radeon Xpress 200 chipset)

Vladimir Florinski wrote:
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doesn't have a large presence). Opensource drivers are amateurish, of poor
quality and performance, crash often, break on updates, and it's hard to
get bugs fixed or receive help from developers. Nvidia drivers are written
by professionals, virtually never crash (and when there is a problem,
...

bad experiences in childhood? I agree that a lot of good open-source developers are employed now and dont have much time left for community tasks. but a few of the tough guys remain out there and still work very professoinal!

In my opinion all the (ex-)windows programers which switched in the last years to linux and don't (want to) know anything about kernel and / or unix standards produced often very poor code. alas their number grows because the beginning is too easy; like "hey, today I write a new driver for my usb webcam, where is the kernel-source?".
these "new" programmers think that they don't have to learn much and so they can spill projects. KDE was an example of such a process two years ago.

bug reporting with open-source projects (especially those running bugzilla pages :-) is easy for programmers.
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