Not so sure I would want an Nvidia graphics card, even if it was free.

[DirtDawg]

I hate my Intel card. It's fine for most things, but 3D games crash crash crash. Sometimes after 30 seconds, sometimes after an hour, but always with an error about blah blah 04x000 blah blah blah." I use Dapper, so maybe (not likely) this has been repaired in Feisty.

In addition, the Intel card is mounted on the motherboard of my computer, so the only cards I can get are the PCI kind. Lame!

I would trade for a Nvidia any day of the week.

[steven8]

I hate my Intel card. It's fine for most things, but 3D games crash crash crash. Sometimes after 30 seconds, sometimes after an hour, but always with an error about blah blah 04x000 blah blah blah." I use Dapper, so maybe (not likely) this has been repaired in Feisty.

In addition, the Intel card is mounted on the motherboard of my computer, so the only cards I can get are the PCI kind. Lame!

I would trade for a Nvidia any day of the week.

PCI is all there will be in time.

[a12ctic]

To bad that intel makes **** poor products, especialy graphics cards, that perform quite poorly compared to the rest of the market. (The C2D is the first exception for about 7 years now, sense the athlons started to hand the pentiums **** to them). I refuse to buy anything from a company like intel, who practices unfair busniess practices like viral marketing, and just downright lies to gain market share they don't deserve.

[FuturePilot]

Oh yeah. I forgot to mention, I've never had a problem with the Nvidia driver.
I tried to install the fglrx driver on a computer with an ati card and bam! X failed.

[slimdog360]

try playing doom 3 on that intel card of yours.

[DirtDawg]

PCI is all there will be in time.

Really? Would you please elaborate?

[steven8]

Really? Would you please elaborate?

From a Wikipedia article on AGP:

AGP is currently being phased out in favor of PCI Express

Most motherboards do not have an AGP slot anymore.

[PartisanEntity]

The Nvidia people that are crying after updates most likely have installed the driver they downloaded from Nviida's website or used Envy instead of installing the driver from the repos. Then when that kernel update comes through it breaks the driver. It's actually very simple to fix. You just need to reinstall the driver or run Envy again.

I remember someone saying that when you leave the safety of the repos, it's your own fault if something breaks.

Exactly, it has nothing to do with the quality of the card or the drivers. It is a case of users who may be novices but insist on using the latest drivers that aren't in the repos.

Fixing the problem is as easy as reinstalling the drivers or running Envy again after a kernel update.

I am quite happy with my Nvidia

[brim4brim]

I have an ATI card which wasn't supported for years, in fact when I contacted ATI they told me it was Dell's job to develop Linux drivers for it because it was a laptop card. I can't recommend them as a result. It now works with the restricted drivers.

[mech7]

Some of us do more then office tasks so an Intel card won't cut it