On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:11:49AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > At least with the kind of laptops I work with (these days, mostly > Thinkpads), the troublefree graphics were onboard Intel. No problem > either suspending or hibernating, no "not-yet-serviced" or > "no-longer-serviced" problems, no binary blobs, no crashes, no black > screen of graphics death (Nvidia on Thinkpad T61), no gradual > deterioration until death (AMD on mainboard I think), no loss of support > (AMD on external card I think), no crashes for accelerated desktop. > Probably no useful gaming performance either, but then I wouldn't know. > > I don't know whether Intel still deals in onboard graphics and > particularly not in relation to desktop computers. > > But at least with laptops and over about a decade of experience, they > have by far been the least problematic with Linux for me. If you don't > need the kind of rendering performance graphics cards specialize in, > don't pay the price in stability and non-support the market leaders > exact. For what is worth, my experience is exactly the same, my 3 most recent laptops (Samsung, Asus and Vant) have integrated Intel GPU and now I'm sure I won't bother with NVidia and Ati/Amd proprietary drivers anymore, nor trying to fight with free drivers to achieve correct power consumption. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
