or you will end up screwing yourself over in the future. Especially in the business arena where corporate image is crucial for survival and reputation.
It’s a well known fact that ATI products suck in linux, their subpar driver can be deemed as zero or even negative contribution to the linux desktop. As I have heard things have changed since AMD released some spec of ATI hardware and promised of new quality drivers. So things are improving, but still the old mentality of ATI doesn’t go well with linux lingers on and more importantly some bad ATI experience on linux has made me think twice before buying a ATI product again. I’m going to build a budget pc probably with amd processor and nvidia hardware. After all, linux users are about less than one percent market share. :p
Recently I came across this blog post. That was probably one of the worst thing a tech company could do to tarnish it’s brand. I still remember the days that I have to recompile alsa and emu10k1 in order to replace oss to make a sound on a pc. Built-in sound cards these days are just good enough for everybody. This comes from someone like me who purchased external amplifier of some obscure brand. When I look at Creative’s product line up all I can think of is Logitech (:p that’s good brand building). Oh I do own an old creative zen mp3 player which I bought for 20 bucks some years ago.
P.S. RIP Creative
