video card: comments please?

[joe]

Peter Boy wrote:

>I'm considering to buy a new graphics card, too. The MSI GFX is based on
>a nvidea chip. Im read a lot about problems with nvidea drivers. May be
>better to buy a ATI controller or a Matrox?
>
Problems? Sure, lots of political issues from what I gather :( 

Technically, however, I haven't found any other video cards/drivers 
which give similar performance for linux. All of my linux workstations 
have nvidias - geforce 2s and tnts - all using the same driver and all 
rock solid -

I understand some folks are offended at nvidia for controlling the 
development and release of their drivers rather than farming it out to 
the open source community, but based on the results, I don't see how I 
could complain - after all, nvidias linux drivers are kept up to date, 
their installer is linux-savvy, and the performance of their cards on 
linux is every bit as good as their performance on ms windows, as it 
should be. Unfortunately, no other video card vendor comes anywhere near 
this level of linux support.

Joe