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There is no old computer only bad os.

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[–] 78 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    To be fair you can 100% have a PC that's too old and/or too low speced to run Linux with certain desktops. For example I personally wouldn't use a PC with under 8gb of ram today if I wanted to run a modern desktop and Wayland compositors basically require (or soon will) Vulkan 1.0 support (for Nvidia that's Kepler GK110 or later, AMD GCN 1.1 or later, and Intel Broadwell or later)

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The thing about Linux is that you have choice. You can put Xubuntu on a laptop with a Core 2 Duo and 4GB of RAM and it will fly.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You can absolutely keep using older X11 desktops or WMs forever, that doesn't mean you're getting the same experience as everyone else on a modern Wayland desktop or WM

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I mean that's sorta the point of DKMS?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Of course nothing is supported forever, I personally wouldn't expect support past a decade (official or unofficial)

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    You don’t need the proprietary one anymore, the open source drivers from nvidia are better

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Both me and the wife have had to switch to the proprietary ones for gaming, the other ones were bugging out like hell.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I’ve had a good experience with the open source official ones on an Ampere generation GPU, sorry it didn’t work for yall. I should also say that they’re only available for Turing up if I recall. The other open source ones like nouveau, nova, and NVK are incomplete and for most cards offer a bad gaming experience, so if you have an older card it’s preferable to use the proprietary

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  • Talking from experience with a 3090 on ZorinOS (so Ubuntu family so old kernels i think, maybe it's different on more recent ones), it mostly works. The two main problems i encountered are screen tearing across all games, and the screen sleep mode which didn't work (but going from Zorin 17 to 18 solved this one, probably bc newer kernels worked best), and other than that it's been smooth

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Windows killing Wireguard is another name in the coffin for me.

    Still need it for Playit Live and Excel VBA but that's about it now.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    C'est trop meugnon

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    rip bozo πŸ˜‚

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    While your computer's crashing, mine's multitasking,
    It does all my work without me even asking!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

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