On 09/15/2014 04:02 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
I myself am using ATI usually (even after they were bought out by AMD).
I used to use ATI. Accidentally, the last computers I bought had a NVIDIA card. I heard Linux support of both boards would be similar.
When I bought a new notebook, I tested it with a live linux CD at the shop. I didn't want to compare all hardware components with internet lists and search for drivers. Graphics worked, WIFI also out of the box!
My desktop is a Dell machine. Linux support is flawless. Later I read in a computer magazine, that there are Dell machines where you hardly get the right drivers. That's why I wouldn't order a machine by mail-order anymore. Linux isn't supported by Dell, they "recommend" Windows, at least in Germany.
Usually Dell workstations (Desktops actually) have ATI card as one of choices. These cards are good ones, with discrete video memory (to the contrary to some video chips with "shared" memory, and yes, there are ATI videochips like with shared memory found in some laptops).
Oh, shared memory! That's a good aspect.