A First Look At The 2010 Linux Graphics Survey Results

“Earlier this month we started once again our annual Linux
Graphics Survey in which we poll our readers about their choices
and opinions concerning graphics cards, display drivers, and other
graphics / X.Org related features of the Linux desktop. While this
survey is still going on through the end of September — so you
still have time to participate — here are the results from the
first 6,300 people to submit their responses. We are publishing the
results so far since there is the X Developers’ Summit this week in
Toulouse and some of these findings may prove to be useful during
those discussions.

“When finding out what technologies the users are most
interested in between KMS, Gallium3D, 3D performance, video
acceleration, 2D performance, and power management, the most
populous response was the same as last year: video acceleration.
Though with nearly as much interest as video acceleration is
improved 3D performance for the Linux drivers. These top two
choices are not a surprise at all considering the overall Linux
video acceleration state could benefit from lots of love and
attention and in terms of 3D performance the open-source driver
performance with Mesa/Gallium3D is in shambles compared to the
proprietary drivers from AMD/NVIDIA.”

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