When I said, there is bad graphics support in Linux, I never meant games for first, and they better concentrate on the usability before jumping for games
& by the way, do u think, the solution I wrote is bad? Right now we have propriety driver for ATI & NVIDIA, with open source drivers Intel will just gain more Linux acceptance, cos most of the users out there use Intel onboard graphics to run Linux. They just saved a lot of developement cost for linux
however, despite the fact that NVIDIA & ati has closed source drivers, it's not that they suck in Linux support, they are good even though they are closed source, what I wanted to say, is that there are so many Linux distros & each one modifies the kernel, or X windows according to them, which breaks the standards completely (ok, maybe not completely). & because of this, one driver doesn't fit all; now don't say again, that NVIDIA, creative, Broadcom should make 100 drivers for 100 distros
The move from Intel is good for Linux community, however keep in mind, Intel graphics solution do not support much features, because of which they are easy to manage etc, which results in much lower cost of development. & with open source drivers, they won't have to make drivers themselves, the community will, but this cannot be said about ATI & NVIDIA
Open source softwares maybe good to some extent, but open source drivers are something I m seriously against, I mean, u just can't reveal your OpenGL or DirectX compiler technology u use in the driver to your competitors, now u tell me if this is good for business
by the way, i found an article regarding this
*www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=528&num=1