Wow I have just installed linux...

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

Ati drivers from linux have sucked so far, Nvidia has better suport in that area tbh. Nut yeah you should keep the dual boot.

Actually I diagree with that statement. I find better support with ATI lately - they have drivers for everything, even though a lot of them are proprietary. And I'm ticked at NVidia for not giving me my BIOS assisted RAID drivers for Linux - they make the chipset that my board runs under for the Southbridge. No one can figure out how to make the RAID drivers work either - like you can for Sil RAID or Intel RAID's. NVidia used to be great! Problem is - they suck big time now. I can easily find NVidia drivers for my older NForce boards, but not for newer boards. I hate NVidia in the Linux rhealm lately.

The guys on the Gentoo forum found a solution though - they took their ASUS boards back and purchased Linux compatible versions. Nice.

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[goldorak]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Actually I diagree with that statement. I find better support with ATI lately - they have drivers for everything, even though a lot of them are proprietary. And I'm ticked at NVidia for not giving me my BIOS assisted RAID drivers for Linux - they make the chipset that my board runs under for the Southbridge. No one can figure out how to make the RAID drivers work either - like you can for Sil RAID or Intel RAID's. NVidia used to be great! Problem is - they suck big time now. I can easily find NVidia drivers for my older NForce boards, but not for newer boards. I hate NVidia in the Linux rhealm lately.

The guys on the Gentoo forum found a solution though - they took their ASUS boards back and purchased Linux compatible versions. Nice.

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Subman1 its true that ati drivers for chipset are better than nvidia's.
But for graphics card ati sux big time, and if you only want to use 3d accelerated graphics under linux/unix the only way is to get an nvidia card.
I've used ati cards for the past 6 years, and every single time i installed a version of linux i had non stopping problems with the graphics drivers.
Even matrox has better support than ati under linux.
Now i finally phased out ati and went with nvidia and the experience is so much smoother its not even funny.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by goldorak

Subman1 its true that ati drivers for chipset are better than nvidia's.
But for graphics card ati sux big time, and if you only want to use 3d accelerated graphics under linux/unix the only way is to get an nvidia card.
I've used ati cards for the past 6 years, and every single time i installed a version of linux i had non stopping problems with the graphics drivers.
Even matrox has better support than ati under linux.
Now i finally phased out ati and went with nvidia and the experience is so much smoother its not even funny.

Strange that you have been having issues. I have none of your described problems. Been running various ATI cards on Linux for years (And I have NVidia cards too that I have run, but haven't bought a new NVidia card in probably 3 to 4 years though). Yes, I use the proprietary driver versions, but they work find for me. No crashing, no nothing. 3D works perfectly.

THen again, I always run Gentoo which is specifically tailored / compiled to my systems instead of being open generic installs, so that might have something to do with it.

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[Letum]

I really wish Ubuntu had support for FAT32 and NTSF hard drive formats.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Letum

I really wish Ubuntu had support for FAT32 and NTSF hard drive formats.

It does or should. Never seen a Linux distro that didn't at least read/write FAT32 (This is how you dual boot anyway), and at least read NTFS. The kernel should have built in support for reading and writting all forms of the FAT files systems, but you may have to add support for NTFS - rebuild your kernel and add it.

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[SUBMAN1]

Here you go Letum - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

THat should take care of your NTFS woes on Ubuntu. I run Gentoo and just compile in support into the Kernel so I've never had the issue as you have had.

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[Letum]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Here you go Letum - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

THat should take care of your NTFS woes on Ubuntu. I run Gentoo and just compile in support into the Kernel so I've never had the issue as you have had.

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thanks a lot!