Nvidia

[Wednesday Owens]

Thoughts on GeForce, and recent new driver updates to 8.1.

Any feedback about NVIDIA and/or 8.1 appreciated.

I only ask due to the fact all these 'crucial updates' have whored out to include HORSESHIT. Takes me forever to extract myself from the unsolicited SPAM and MALWARE.

8.1 can kiss my fucking ass. We are looking into a virtual vacuum.

I am from the day when a critical update was a GD critical update, not the reflection of a marketing contract freshly signed to unleash a horde of bugs up my ass.

[varg]

1. Don't use Windows
2. Don't use proprietary drivers

Excluding that there's not much you can do other than be at their whim

Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You! - YouTube

Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You! - YouTube

[Wednesday Owens]

Originally Posted by varg

1. Don't use Windows

Can you elaborate on this or direct me to another thread? I did search first in order to understand your response :/

Linux?

2. Don't use proprietary drivers

Everything is proprietary now. I am sick of it. I know I am slow to realize this, but this last Windows is a TOTAL Whore.

Excluding that there's not much you can do other than be at their whim

A victim of marketing once again. It's far past old. It is inescapable.

[varg]

Originally Posted by Wednesday Owens

Linux?

Yes but there are more alternatives than just Linux.

Originally Posted by Wednesday Owens

Everything is proprietary now.

Which is why #1 was a prerequisite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau_%28software%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_3D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_a...hics#ATI.2FAMD

[varg]

Linus: http://www.networkworld.com/article/...self-now-.html , http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137391223711946&w=2

Mint is a decent distro for beginners: http://abriefhistory.org/wp-content/...mintisrael.jpg .. http://www.linuxmint.com/ .. put it on a usb stick with UNetBootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ to try it out first without installing permanently on hd.