Am Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:54:58 +0300 schrieb Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@archlinux.org>:
i can't agree with you. every time somebody reported an issue with nvidia, being even a performance regression, you personally closed it as "we can't do anything"
i'm hit with this issue and i know a dozen. this regression makes rendering antialised fonts in gtk 10 times slower and in kde when using non-antialiased fonts [1]
we have to think about our users first. your statistics say that nvidia is dominant in our community[2]
[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=154563 [2] https://www.archlinux.de/?page=FunStatistics
It may be critical for affected people but this shouldn't hold back the move. It's not possible for us to fix it. And we have the nouveau driver as an alternative.