I've recently seen a trend in tech communities on lemmy where people have developed this mentality that computer hardware is as disposable as a compostable cup, and that after 10-15 years you should just chuck it in the bin and get something new. If someone asks for tech support, they'll just be told to buy new hardware. If someone is saddened their hardware is no longer supported by software they are just entitled, need to pull up their bootstraps, and "only" spend $100 to get something used that will also not be supported in 5 years. It doesn't matter if there is actual information out there that'll help them either. If the hardware is old, people will unanimously decide that nothing can be done.
I've seen this even in linux communities, what happened to people giving a damn about e-waste? Why is the solution always to just throw money at the problem? It's infuriating. I've half a mind to just block every tech/software community other than the ones on hexbear at this point.
I'm still using an amd 390x, which admittedly is almost 10 years old, but it still runs most almost-modern stuff pretty well. But I have started to run into a few games where it just straight up won't play the game at all because it doesn't support dx12 or something (looking at you, marvel rivals
) . Stopped getting updated drivers like 5 years back lol.
Seems arbitrary. In WINE you have the option to use VKD3D which translates DX12 calls to Vulkan calls. You may be able to get more mileage that way.