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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
is anything you can't do with antix on a pentium 4 even worth doing
Except if you have an old NVIDIA card. The current kernel doesn’t support the old binary drivers anymore and the nouveau drivers are slow and buggy.
Will it support a 3090?
I got it working out of the box with bazzite.
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
you need to jump through small hoops for a 1080 and older.
Yes, that’s a new card well supported by the proprietary driver. I’m talking about cards older than 5 or 10 years.
The post specifically mentions old computers.
My 1080Ti works out of the box with the bazzite-nvidia image
You don’t 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.
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
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
I mean that's sorta the point of DKMS?
C'est trop meugnon
@Gulliver@lemmy.zip What does the French say?
windows is crashing linux is flowering, with linux there is no old pc only bad is.
Crashing? With the context of the pictures and similarities with Spanish and Catalan idioms I would say windows stands you up.
"planter" in french can mean three things : plant (a seed), crash (a system) or break up (with someone)
Hence the triple pun
The system crashing I didn't know, does the computer plants itself or it plants you? in Spanish to plant someone or leave someone planted is to not show up on a date, so I would find it very funny if it was the latter.
Is the break up closer to dumping? I love to learn this kind on nuances.
I don't speak french or Spanish, but in Italian "windows ti ha piantato" it has the same three nuances that op wrote. When a computer is "piantato" it means it's frozen/crashed. Like it's stuck, planted in the ground.
For example someone can shout "Cazzo!!! Questo cazzo di computer si è piantato e ho perso il salvataggio del cazzo! Cazzo!"
Also a girlfriend can "piantato" = break up or do no show on appointment. And also "piantato" main meaning is to plant something in the spil
"Ma petite amie m'a planté" is closer to "my girlfriend dumped me", it's a bit familiar. "Break up with X" could be "rompre avec X"
"L'ordinateur a planté" means the computer crashed. There's no complement to the verb there, it just "planted."
L'ordinateur a planté, now I get it.
After looking a couple of dictionaries what I was trying to ask is if it was "a planté" or "s'est planté"
Thanks
"se planter" is yet another meaning of the word, it's slang for "make a mistake" or "have an accident" (usually involving a vehicle).
Yeah, the problem is that it's had to convey the double meaning because "planter" is often used about an electronic device crashing, so it's both windows crashed, and windows stood you up
Oh! I didn't know that one hahahahha I love it. Here we say that windows hung itself, "se colgó".
This is correct. From Larousse:
Familier. Abandonner brusquement quelqu'un, quelque chose quelque part : Il m'a planté au coin de la rue.
windows is crashing linux is flowering, with linux there is no old pc only bad OS.
Unless it is a 486 and you want to stay current :P
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I read that to the melody of "What does the Fox say?".
rip bozo 😂
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.
Use WinBoat to run 2D applications like Excel. I’m not familiar with Playit Live, but it seems to be the kind of application that WinBoat works well with.
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