I really can't make sense of the whole video card debate. On the one hand, Linus has blasted Nvidia, but for a long time I thought they were preferred among Linux users. With recent machines that I've purchased I've been less than happy with the NVidia cards, both with open source drivers and the proprietary one. However I haven't heard anything particularly good about ATI/AMD either. For my needs, I'll probably just stick with Intel for the foreseeable future. I've switched from the more resource intensive window managers to using Xmonad and I'm quite happy with it. I remember when Compiz came out -- it completely blew my mind. I used it happily for a year, but then moved to a different machine and couldn't get it to work due to issues with the video card. Now the project seems to be shutting down, and everyone is unhappy with where Ubuntu is going with their window manager. Weird stuff. Seems like a big regression. -Erik On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Jeremy MountainJohnson <jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > Forgot to mention, AMD GPU in my experience has been terrible in > Linux. I haven't went with them in 10 years because of their Linux > support. With my distro you have to stay behind kernel releases just > to get the dated AMD proprietary drivers to compile- not sure how the > open source has been going though. > > -- > Jeremy MountainJohnson > Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com > > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Jeremy MountainJohnson > <jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: >> Happy New Year Luggers and Jon, >> >> Pretty much all NVIDIA cards do well in Linux with proprietary >> drivers (getting about middle of the road with open source nouveau), >> so sticking with a few models later than your 6150 would be helpful. >> If you want a decent upgrade that isn't high end or too much overkill, >> the 550 ti has been great for me and I still use it (I game a little >> with the Linux beta of Steam and a few classic GL games). It may be >> more than you need (around $100 - $150 online new). >> >> Better yet, keep your card, save your money, and switch to a different >> desktop environment like XFCE or LXDE. I use XFCE with compositing >> turned off and it does extremely well on all my Linux systems both low >> and high end GPUs. Gnome3 is trying to squeeze in pretty effects (IMHO >> failing at being pretty- reminds me of Taylor Swift's hair style last >> night at Times Square) to run on all hardware and I think the fallback >> is or has gone away from being supported. Not sure if it's hard to >> switch to XFCE with Ubuntu since I don't use it- perhaps others on the >> list have some insight? >> >> Good luck. Also, if you go the route of upgrading video cards- perhaps >> noting the revision of your PCIE slot would also help the list make a >> better recommendation suited for your system. >> >> -- >> Jeremy MountainJohnson >> Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: >>> >>> I have an NVIDIA GeForce 6150 built on my motherboard. I don't do 3D stuff, no gaming, no major graphics. I'm running Ubuntu in Gnome Classic mode without effects. I'm still getting really high CPU load from Xorg doing many things. So I'm looking for an inexpensive PciE graphics card to replace my onboard one. Any suggestions for cards that are well supported by Linux, particularly Ubuntu? >>> >>> Thanks, Jon >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://mtu.net/~jpschewe >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Erik K. Mitchell erik.mitchell at gmail.com