nvidia is not fond of the Linux world (compared to ATI).
A more realistic way to say that is that linux is intentionally incompatible with a lot of other software.
AIUI, nvidia gives (to the linux world) less information about how to exploit nvidia capabilities than does ATI, and that the linux world is not ignoring information proffered by nvidia. How then is it that linux is intentionally incompatible with nvidia and other software? Or do you refer to driver versioning?
(a number of things are screwy with the linux world; nvidia dysfunctionality is not on the list intentionally)
/AIUI
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