Video cards and Linux

Hi all,

My machine has started freezing up fairly regularly without any  
changes in either hardware or software configuration.  Through process  
of elimination I've determined that it's most likely the video card  
which is causing the problem, so I need to get a new one.  My question  
is this:

NVidia or ATI?

The card which I'll be replacing has an NVidia chipset, and I've been  
very pleased with the driver support for Linux.  Last time I looked  
into it (~5 years ago) ATI's drivers for Linux were not so great  
(crap, really) and I'm wondering how well their current Linux drivers  
compare to NVidia's.  I'm leaning toward an ATI card for price/ 
performance, but I want to make sure I won't be sacrificing  
functionality under Linux just to get a few more FPS for games on  
Windows.

I don't play games under Linux (for obvious reasons), but I like  
having 3D desktop acceleration and I frequently use the H.264/VC-1  
hardware decoding on my NVidia card.  The latter is somewhat important  
for me, as the software decoders for those codecs produce some  
choppiness on my machine when playing 1080p content.

Thanks,
Ryan
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