Hello All,

I'm looking to incite a flame war. I was under the impression that the ATI graphics driver that is open-sourced was being developed by the community, not directly by AMD. Is it true that AMD is developing the driver itself?

I want to buy a new video card that is capable of playing a few games I like to kill time with, probably in windows until Steam gets some more linux stuff, but I also want good support in my KDE environment.

I have always stuck with Intel because it has awesome support in Linux... Now I need to choose between nVidia and AMD. Because of many comments and support for AMD I recently purchased a new AMD machine that I intend to use for my development server, but until I replace my workstation, I am using it for that. It has an AMD graphics built in Radeon HD 6530D. I have been pleasantly surprised by this card using the open source driver, but I'm wondering how it would work with the proprietary driver, and I'm a little scared to attempt to install it.

If you were going to buy a new card today (sub-$100) what would you buy and why? I value your opinions, which are also more current than what Google is returning...

I appreciate your thoughts!

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Regards,

Nathan England

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