Quoting: HamishThe card is from 2008 after all, and has already given me almost four years solid service.

if a cardd is from 2008, and it's 2014, doesn't that make it 6 years of service?
or did you mean it was released in 2008, and you bought it in 2010?

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Quoting: GuestSomeone say Dell?

my dad still uses one of these with a pentium 4 and 1gb ram, 40gb storage

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Quoting: kalinI use addblock only because youtube and even I don't achieve desired result. I still have pop ups in player.

try the 'magic actions for youtube plugin' and enabling the ad-blocking feature, it's what i use + it adds some features to youtube

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Quoting: aLI liked more trine 2 than trine... Anyway, whats this news about? i thought i had already played both on linux... did i play one of them on windows?

the humble bundle version was on linux, but the steam version of the first one is windows only, bought the frozenbyte pack on steam, so i don't have the linux version of trine 1 (or shadowgrounds 1 and 2)
this port is different from the humble one since this is by it's original developpers, the previous was from external porters, also this one should come to steam, and will probably have less issues

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Quoting: DMJCOpenGL Drama summed up:
ATi/AMD hasn't put enough resources into their OpenGL drivers despite having 15-20 odd years to do so.

seriously this is exactly the reason amd is lagging behind in general, the difference between amd/nvidia isn't nearly as big as you make it, same stuff for their cpu's
pople just spend lot of time bashing amd and praising intel/nvidia, and the worst thing is that it's not on linux, on windows as well, nvidia is destroying the industry with their proprietary technology(look at how hard it is for amd to optimize drivers for nvidia gameworks titles) and in stores they only sell intel because 'that is what most people know best', when in reality it isn't always true, especially in the athlon days, where the general public still thought 'intel=better', resulting in having still poor profit, which is why they lost the performance advantage so quickly
they are in both cpu and gpu market and have to compete in both, still they don't even have close to the profit of intel or nvidia, who only have to compete in 1 market
so yeah you can say nvidia's proprietary drivers on linux are better, but it's mostly a result of all the bashing, bashing them even more makes it even worse and makes the industry steer towards a monopoly, and everyone knows how good that is for the consumers

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Quoting: FlutterRageBut you can easily add the site to the list yourself.

how do you add it to the list?

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Quoting: sgtGarciaSometimes I think that hybrid graphics brought more problems than resolved :/

true, having constant issues with bumblebee on linux, on windows optimus works fine though, but on linux it's a hell to get working

Quoting: SaniTBut seriously, post lots of pro-OpenGL articles now, to even out the argument, from actual long-time Linux (if not Linux-ONLY) OpenGL developers.

like this one?
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and-not-DirectX [External Link]

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a industry without AMD would be quite horrifying
i understand that you guys, from a linux user standpoint, steer away from amd
but from a morality standpoint AMD is the better company out there, by far

just look at their technologies, most amd-technologies are pretty open, and their open-source drivers for linux outperform nvidia's,
amd actually contributes to them, while nvidia's open-source drivers are almost entirely made by the linux comunity,
the first time nvidia contributed to the open source nouveau drivers was a few months ago (source http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/87166-nvidia-eyes-open-source-support-for-k1-graphics) [External Link]

also if you look from a non linux user standpoint, cuda, physx, gameworks, gsync, are all proprietary and only work on nvidia, physx also works on cpu, but is purposely bricked on it(uses outdated cpu-instructions source http://techreport.com/news/19216/physx-hobbled-on-the-cpu-by-x87-code) [External Link]

compared to bullet physics, which is open source,freesync, which amd actually pushed as a standard and tressFX, which works on both nvidia and amd, and doesn't suffer on nvidia hardware even though it's amd's technology
nvidia is purposely implementing stuff that run worse on amd harware, just look up 'arkham origins tesselation wireframe' which they implemented in that game since tesselation is amd's main weakness, the ammounts used is beyond reasonable ammounts

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i absolutely love the fact that they post at which settings you can run the game with the minimum and recommended settings

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got only metro 2033(bought before i switched to linux), so that kinda sucks for me, the title gave me false hope :(

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