Linux on older laptops

[Luke-Jr]

On Monday 02 January 2006 18:24, Tom Bruno wrote:
> Luke-Jr wrote:
> > On Monday 02 January 2006 13:03, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 03:17 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> >>> Better to deprive business and a sale than to buy hardware without
> >>> [moral] drivers.
> >>
> >> Regarding my purchase, AMD and NVidia in my notebook was a higher
> >> priority than native wlan driver.
> >
> > You mean ATi, I hope. nVidia, of course, lacks hardware accel for 3D.
>
> ???  nvidia is the best.. 

nVidia lacks any real hardware accel for 3D. Immoral drivers do not count for 
anything. Thus, nVidia might work as an expensive 2D/Myth/server card, but 
useless for games.

> and pretty sure you cant have both ati and nvidia cards in a notebook...  :)

Indeed, which is why I hoped he meant ATi instead of nVidia.

> >> I'm sure somewhere your stance on this makes sense, too bad this isn't
> >> that place.  I'm not understanding your comparison of morality and
> >> ndiswrapper I guess.
> >
> > The only practical use for ndiswrapper is to load an immoral driver.
>
> Very true... but.. it works..

So does Windows 3.11.