Last I heard (very recently) the NVidia closed source drivers are still the most practical option, because the AMD closed source drivers are fickle and the AMD open source drivers are incomplete. Wrong?
No, you are dead right. Even though a lot of NVidias stuff is closed source, the binaries have always had much better support for graphics and power management than ever the Radeon drivers. I could never get things like graphics hibernate to work as well as it did with those from NVidia.
I believe I read earlier that they have promised to open source a lot of their drivers for OSS.
True, if you are really serious about 3D in Linux then NVidia is the better option.
With AMD there is still some pressure that someday NVidia could follow. With AMD gone, NVidia does not need to worry any longer, because Intel really isn't a valid competitor in the professional 3D space.
Right, but it was improving. If there's no high-performance 3D hardware target with a hope of having FOSS driver support, it'll put a stop to any innovation in that space. Hence, this is bad.
