Re:On switching to Arch Linux
by shaurz on Friday January 27, 2012 @11:57AM
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Once you have Arch set up, there is very little tweaking that needs to be done. It "just works", well unless you have an AMD or NVIDIA graphics card and a new kernel or xorg comes out which isn't supported yet...
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I think this is a little disingenuous. The Arch developers do their best to make sure that nvidia and amd drivers work with new kernels.
Sometimes updated drivers are needed, but not released for months, and the developers have to make the choice between holding back the kernel update for that small minority or releasing it to the benefit of everyone not using that driver.
Well, there are no graphics cards except AMD and NVIDIA (for Intel doesn't make discrete cards). And someone's a GPGPU developer who develops for various bleeding-edge Radeons and Teslas.
Re:On switching to Arch Linux
by throwaway64 on Friday January 27, 2012 @03:10PM
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nouveau and the open source ATI radeon drivers work quite well on hardware that isn't the latest generation, and do not result in those sorts of issues.