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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)
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.
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
There is a world of difference between "not getting the best experience" and "the entire computer is unusable now".
The main problem is that nowadays a lot of software is JavaScript downloaded when web browsing. And that might just be too demanding for ancient hardware if it was never tested on it.
is anything you can't do with antix on a pentium 4 even worth doing
I mean that's sorta the point of DKMS?
Of course nothing is supported forever, I personally wouldn't expect support past a decade (official or unofficial)
Will it support a 3090?
My 1080Ti works out of the box with the bazzite-nvidia image
You donβt need the proprietary one anymore, the open source drivers from nvidia are better
Both me and the wife have had to switch to the proprietary ones for gaming, the other ones were bugging out like hell.
Iβve had a good experience with the open source official ones on an Ampere generation GPU, sorry it didnβt work for yall. I should also say that theyβre 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 itβs preferable to use the proprietary
cards from the 2000 series are supposed to be used with the newer kind of official driver, that's supposed to be also more stable than the former one. this driver does not support cards before 2000
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
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.
While your computer's crashing, mine's multitasking,
It does all my work without me even asking!
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
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