On 13 January 2015 at 19:42, Mike <mh6269@gmail.com> wrote:
Can I infer from the Nvidia comments that there are many problems with them ? Or are they just tricky but do work? If the latter then that might be a topic that could help users.
The open-source drivers for nvidia have historically been useless; these days they're not so bad, but still not great, especially if you have recently-released hardware. However the official nvidia drivers have been pretty good for years now. There's a few tricky parts around building them, enabling right GL libraries and matching to the right kernel configs if you are doing it yourself, but if you use a distribution like Ubuntu or a derivative then you can just install their pre-packaged drivers and it all Just Works and you can get on with your life. T