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. -- Gruß, Christian