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Huh ? Compared to open source nvidia driver which could do nothing ?

I had a Riva TNT 2 card. The only "accelerated" thing it could do in X was DGA (direct graphics access). Switched to Ati and never looked back. Of course you could use the proprietary driver. If you had enough time to solve instalation problems and didn't mind frequent crashes.

>>hulitu+(OP)
> Compared to open source nvidia driver which could do nothing ?

Compared to the official Nvidia driver.

> If you had enough time to solve instalation problems and didn't mind frequent crashes

I used Nvidia GPUs from ~2001 to ~2018 on various machines with various GPUs and i never had any such issues on Linux. I always used the official driver installer and it worked perfectly fine.

>>hulitu+(OP)
Did people not try the nvidia driver back then? Even as a casual user at the time it was miles ahead - but it wasn’t open source

>>hulitu+(OP)
DGA and later XV.