[sclug] Desktop distro recommendations

[Chris Aitken]

Alex Butcher wrote:

>On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Chris Aitken wrote:
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>>Matt wrote:
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>>>* Alex Butcher <lug at assursys.co.uk> [2004-04-05 10:09:06]:
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>>>>In theory, the glue code should ensure that the driver continues to work
>>>>with future kernels (although the glue code may need hacking) and this has
>>>>been borne out - SO FAR. I'm not sure I'd want to invest 300GBP+ in an
>>>>nVidia card with the assumption it will continue to work with all future
>>>>Linux kernels though.
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>>>If you're the sort of person who spends 300 quid on a graphics card,
>>>you're probably also the sort of person who'll buy a new one every six
>>>months just to keep up. :-)
>>>
>>>Matt
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>>Touche!
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>Not really - Matt knows me in person, and knows that I buy bottom of the
>range video cards because I don't care about 3D game performance (pretty
>much the only reason to buy any card over ~40GBP these days).
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>The most expensive card I've ever bought was a 2MByte Diamond S3 Vision864
>card back in 1995 for 130GBP+VAT. Since then, it's been a Diamond nVidia
>Riva128 (60GBP), ATI Rage128 (60GBP), Inno3D nVidia Geforce 4 MX440 (30GBP)
>and GigaByte Radeon 7500 (30GBP). The only one I've been disappointed with
>is the Inno3D card - I'm pretty sure there's a manufacturing mistake which
>gives the picture a yellow-ish tinge, and also the picture is pretty soft
>over 1024x768 (I have a 21" Trinitron monitor that I normally run at
>1600x1200 at 75Hz). I gather this problem applies to most of the cheap
>nVidia-based cards.
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>Best Regards,
>Alex.
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I have a Riva TNT2 64 (with, confusingly, 32 Mb of RAM). It was ?25 in 
pc world Jan 2003. One of their usual mis-priced components. :)

Chris
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