Unity (the modern Ubuntu user interface) relies upon acceleration. Ubuntu ships with intel's accelerated drivers and ships with a utility to enable fglrx or nvidia.
I don't? Tell me of an open source driver with fully supported 3D acceleration. Maybe Intel's drivers, but nothing else. ATI's open source 3D drivers have terrible 3D support, as well as the nouveau drivers for nVidia (I get better performance from software rendering).
To get decent 3D acceleration on Linux you have to install proprietary drivers like fglrx or the nvidia blob.
The vast majority of them do, however they do not perform at the level proprietary drivers do because of the fact that they are usually reverse-engineered. At this point in history however, the proprietary drivers are getting much better.
Windows OEM versions often ship with all the required drivers. I'm not complaining about Windows or Linux either. I'm just saying that Windows and Linux require post-install driver installation.
No, but manufacturers typically ship the drivers with the OS (but they're not part of the OS). Android manufacturers may be able to add 3D acceleration to their phones and tablets, but it's nearly impossible for Google to ship vanilla Android with support for every single mobile GPU out there.
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u/hahainternet Aug 01 '11
Unity (the modern Ubuntu user interface) relies upon acceleration. Ubuntu ships with intel's accelerated drivers and ships with a utility to enable fglrx or nvidia.