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How To Request Better ATI Linux Support
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Larabel, the editor of Phoronix, has outlined some strategies for contacting ATI's customers (OEM/ODM/AIBs) to seek ATI Linux fglrx driver improvements. He opines that contacting ATI or AMD directly is the 'wrong approach.' He also states, 'I know for certain that at least one major OEM would like to see improved Linux support but is afraid that the Windows support would then be at risk.' Michael cites examples from the past where Lenovo had sought improved Linux display drivers, which resulted in several new features last year. He provides links to the feedback pages for a number of the vendors to whom ATI actually does listen."
ROFLMAO! You aren't serious, are you?
It's more like 1% of 1% of the PC market at most. Face it, 1 person out of 100 runs linux. 2 more run macs. The rest run Windows because they have at least half a brain.
Now, it's known that the retards that have money AND want to buy a unix run Macs.
The rest who want to pay nothing run Linux. They obviously don't want to pay anything for a decent OS otherwise they'd be running Windows. They don't want to pay for hardware either.
I swear, I once put up a 2 year computer on Craigslist, still perfectly fine, and asked only $50 for it, since I didn't know better - it probably was worth $400 still since it was a top of the line at the time I purchased it. This fat, smelly hippy, who still drove in a beetle he probably stole in the 60's answered the ad and wanted it for free! With the monitor! After I said no, he took me aside, and said I can have a free roll in the hay with his wife, a monstrosity of a woman! Yuck. He was that cheap.
Later, my friend, a programmer, offered and bought the computer for $250 for his kid. Now, if he was programming for OSS, he might have acted the same way as the hippie. But he works for Microsoft and can afford nice things because MS is good to him, just like they are good to their customers.
But that hippie is your typical linux luser. I mean, if you had the finer things in life - a nice car, home - why would you waste time on an OS that can't even run the most basic apps in stores today?
mod parent -1 non-groupthink
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Slashdot needs a new moderation option - (-100) moron.
You bought it knowing it was a closed spec device, tough shit. If you dont like it buy something else.
I dont read