Comment 2 for bug 660669

Hi mpt,

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

Looking at the wireframes in the wiki, how does the user choose between Nvidia driver 163 (proprietary, tested) and Nvidia driver 165 (proprietary)? Is a higher version number better? Or is it better to be tested?

I personally find this text hard to parse: "This device may work poorly without a proprietary driver". I find that sentence constructions using a negative suggestion like "without" require a bit more effort to process than constructions using positive suggestions, such as "This device may perform better with a proprietary driver".

[although that construction introduces its own problems... "better" than what, exactly? still, I find "poorly... without" to be close enough to a double negative that it's unnatural to process. YMMV of course]

Regarding the new text you propose:

"Proprietary drivers have private code that Ubuntu developers can’t review or improve. Security and other updates are dependent on the driver vendor."

I think it is a huge improvement.

I'll make one tiny suggestion for the second sentence: "Security and other updates are dependent on the responsiveness of the driver vendor." For the cost of the extra words, you've conveyed a timeliness expectation for the updates in addition to clarifying the origination of the updates. But I feel this is crossing into bikeshedding territory, so take the suggestion for what it's worth.

The final text you propose, "This computer may work better..." is great.

Thanks again.