If you want to know which of the two (Intel vs. ATI) sucks more, I'd like to remind you of a joke: Two bald men were arguing over their baldness: "I think you're way more bald than I am." "How can you say such nonsense, when neither of us has a single hair on our heads!" "That may be true, but you have a much larger head." That said, ATI sucks more - it has way more stuff in their chips, but that just means - more stuff that doesn't work. Unlike AMD, Intel at least takes their Linux (and other *nix) support seriously.