[LAU] Christmas present for self.

[Roberto]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:11:49AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> At least with the kind of laptops I work with (these days, mostly
> Thinkpads), the troublefree graphics were onboard Intel.  No problem
> either suspending or hibernating, no "not-yet-serviced" or
> "no-longer-serviced" problems, no binary blobs, no crashes, no black
> screen of graphics death (Nvidia on Thinkpad T61), no gradual
> deterioration until death (AMD on mainboard I think), no loss of support
> (AMD on external card I think), no crashes for accelerated desktop.
> Probably no useful gaming performance either, but then I wouldn't know.
> 
> I don't know whether Intel still deals in onboard graphics and
> particularly not in relation to desktop computers.
> 
> But at least with laptops and over about a decade of experience, they
> have by far been the least problematic with Linux for me.  If you don't
> need the kind of rendering performance graphics cards specialize in,
> don't pay the price in stability and non-support the market leaders
> exact.

For what is worth, my experience is exactly the same, my 3 most recent
laptops (Samsung, Asus and Vant) have integrated Intel GPU and now I'm
sure I won't bother with NVidia and Ati/Amd proprietary drivers anymore,
nor trying to fight with free drivers to achieve correct power
consumption.