Can someone explain to me what was "insulting" about this post?

[eggplant37]

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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3247183
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Originally Posted by hikaricore View Post
The intel chipset is integrated into the motherboard. If this is a desktop system then you're best going with a PCIe or AGP Nvidia card. If this is a laptop, you'd have to get an entirely new one with an Nvidia Go or similar integrated chipset.
Thank you, Captain Obvious! You're my hero. Yes, it's a laptop. Yes, unless I contact Dell and exchange machines, I guess I'm to be buggered with naught but the likes of the "Get a better video card" set.

You see, to me, that's copping out. The hardware I bought is just as capable as the Nvidia and ATI-equipped machines at handling the graphics, just not as pretty and not as quickly. I'd be happier with a post that might tell me how to approach finding a solution to my problem or new things to try. Anyone else got any ideas?
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[jdong]

Your reply was unnecessarily rude and sarcastic for an honest attempt to point out one factor leading to your performance issues. I understand and sympathize that it's hard to hear people criticizing hardware choices that you've made because they often have large pricetags and no-point-of-return implications attached, but please try to be more polite about it.

The Intel GMA series chipsets are great, if not fantastic, for 3D desktop and video playback purposes, and no other card matches its performance-per-watt ratio. However, in the case of 3D gaming, it falls very short of AMD/ATI and nVidia offerings -- it is not "every bit as capable" at handling graphics-intensive games.

Hikaricore tried to objectively point this out to you, and you replied back with a sarcastic, belittling statement.

I stand by the original decision.

[eggplant37]

Your reply was unnecessarily rude and sarcastic for an honest attempt to point out one factor leading to your performance issues. I understand and sympathize that it's hard to hear people criticizing hardware choices that you've made because they often have large pricetags and no-point-of-return implications attached, but please try to be more polite about it.

The Intel GMA series chipsets are great, if not fantastic, for 3D desktop and video playback purposes, and no other card matches its performance-per-watt ratio. However, in the case of 3D gaming, it falls very short of AMD/ATI and nVidia offerings -- it is not "every bit as capable" at handling graphics-intensive games.

Hikaricore tried to objectively point this out to you, and you replied back with a sarcastic, belittling statement.

I stand by the original decision.

Really, my comment made in jest and meant to point out the fatalistic, useless reply to the problem that I saw in nearly every thread related to the Intel GPU and its driver: "Dude, buy another card." In my case, since I'm using a laptop, it's a solution that simply won't work. I'd love to afford a better laptop, but I don't have tons of $$ to toss at the problem.

Go read the original thread, and you'll see that I got sarcastic and mean tossed right back in my face, and if you'll also review every other thread in this Resolution forum section, I might pount out that this forum's moderators seem to specialize in a l33t fanboy attitude that seems to follow this logic bubble:

1. The moderators are always right.
2. If in doubt about whether a moderator is always right, see rule 1.
3. Don't question the moderators.

Really, I do wonder one thing, though: Is Conexant aware of the problems that I see in the attitude of many of the moderators here? Thankfully, my persistence in the original thread did eventually get someone sympathetic to my cause to help out.

However, I wonder how many others who are looking for a solution to the same problem as mine were turned completely off from Ubuntu and Linux altogether as a result of the meanness displayed by this forum's moderators? You have to admit, this forum doesn't look much like a third-party support forum, and one might easily believe that it's somehow directly connected to Ubuntu and Conexant. With support offerings like this, moderated by what appears to me to be ogrish folk with a rotten attitude, where does a person turn to get *real* support from people who might have better options than, "Dude, buy another card?"

Maybe next time I'll toss some emoticons around so that my attempts at trying to make light of a situation aren't so grossly misinterpreted.

[jdong]

Well, I'm sorry your comments were taken as offensive when you meant for it to be light hearted and witty. Many people who come and post here do not speak/write English as a native language, and take what they see at face/literal value. We also tend to give the benefit of the doubt in support threads and assume people mean what they say. So yes, a generous use of <sarcasm> tags and emoticons would help make sure you don't get misinterpreted.

Are there any further unresolved issues pending this matter, and what does the world's largest software modem manufacturer have to do with this? ;-) ;-)

[eggplant37]

Heh. Not a bloody thing. :s/Conexant/Canonical/ and it might be more meaningful. :guitar: