>> I meant there are no Linux drivers for high-end hardware like expensive
>> graphics cards. Clearly there *are* Linux drivers for lots of other
>> things.
> 
> No Linux drivers for what high-end expensive graphics cards, exactly?  

I didn't say "no", I said "few". And I was making a generalisation.

> Most of those are now Nvidia or ATI IIRC, and there are Linux drivers 
> that support the majority of those cards, even with 3D (though you often 
> have to go to a proprietary kernel module for it).  I use both the ATI 
> and Nvidia drivers, so it's not exactly accurate to say that those cards 
> don't work well with Linux.

Things have improved since 2006 then. ;-) I wasted a whole day trying to 
get the nVidia drivers to work...

(Of course, a few months later I upgraded my graphics card, making my 
Linux partition non-bootable. That was roughly when I decided to just 
not bother fixing it.)

>> And by "a few" I meant more games and applications rather than drivers.
> 
> There's quite a large selection of software.  It may not be WoW, but it's 
> out there.

Sure. And it'll probably continue to get larger over time. But right 
now, it's still fairly modest by comparison.

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