[wellylug] Is SUSE a desktop distro? (AARRGGHH!)

[Ian Sterling]

> source.  And to some extent, I don't really care -- it's their problem,
> not mine, and the pain that using closed drivers usually brings is
> enough that I'm happy to avoid their products.  It would be nice if

And they're happy to avoid you, too, I'm sure. ;-)

> people wouldn't go around recommending nVidia because "they've got good
> Linux support", though -- closed drivers != good Linux support, IMHO.

I'm sorry, but I really don't agree with you on this.  In the past, it
was indeed a pain to install the nvidia drivers.  However, for the
last six or twelve months, nvidia's had the wonderful installer
they've been making available to the average joe user.  All one needs
to do is (as root)

sh /path/to/NVIDIAdrivers.bin

...And about 45 seconds later, the driver is rebuilt.  You need to
install the modules with the new kernel anyway (yes, I know it's part
of the normal kernel upgrade/install process, but...), why do it
half-arsed?  It's not that much extra time than updating lilo or grub
anyway.

Don't get me wrong, your arguments may certainly be valid, but I
certainly don't agree with them.  I'm of the mind that NOT everything
must be open source.   I'm willing to use a closed-source product if
it does the job BETTER than the open-sourced equivalent.

Just my 2c worth...