Xorg / Xenocara wizard Matthieu Herrb wrote something very bad for the future of free operating systems as desktops:
“Beware, future video cards from ATI and nVidia won’t have a 2D acceleration engine anymore. Thus the only way to get reasonable 2D speed will be by using the 3D engine and this requires DRI.
But for now there’s no freely available documentation for those cards and no opensource DRI drivers for them either.”
Not a big deal? Well, 2D acceleration is absolutely mandatory to get an useable desktop. Even with a damn fast CPU. Without acceleration, even moving a window is a real pain.
Bad.