>linux is great for old computers, it will bring it back to life!!yeah unless you have older nvidia hardware you lying dipshits. I just hopped back to Windows 10 after using linux on my build with older nvidia hardware and finally got to experience what it's like to have working hardware acceleration for the first time in years.>b-b-b-but its nvidia's fault!!look at mpv and look at GNOME Web of all things. They have working nvdec hardware acceleration. It is still unbelievable to me how GNOME Web is the only browser on linux that supports legacy nvidia hardware. It is possible.
>buys hardware from the most foss hostile gpu vendor in existence>wonders why foss support is bad
>>108938747skill issue
>>108938747Filtered
>>108938782and its been proven that proper hardware support for it is still possible but the linux dev community is completely fine with letting 90% of the manufacture history of the most popular gpu manufacturer just be reduced to paper weights
>>108938747>how GNOME Web is the only browser on linux that supports legacy nvidia hardwarebecause gnome web uses safari's engine, webkit. funny innit
>>108938747Use case for GNOME Web?
>>108938863>nvidia turns your gpu into a useless brick by dropping all support with their planned obsolence shit>clearly it's the fault of some random hobby devs and not nvidia or the retard buying nvidia hardware
>>108938747Venting on Bhutanese sloth watching forums is an option, but so is vibecoding it yourself
>>108938747>yeah unless you have older nvidia hardware you lying dipshitsor older AMD hardware for that matter (gcn1, terascale) amdgpu is a mess and proprietary drivers aren't very goodbiggest reason why I will never repeat the meme of "bringing old computers back to life with linux" absolute retardation>>108938863>but the linux dev community is completely fine with letting 90% of the manufacture history of the most popular gpu manufacturer just be reduced to paper weightsyeah why not I would rather have good drivers for my rdna2 card than them instead wasting their time with your ewaste dogshit
>>108938747You have to understand that Linux isn't supposed to work. It is a completely broken system and that is what nerds love. A simple task that would take a few seconds on any other OS might take hours on Linux because you need to manually fix 10 different things before you can even start using your computer and still have a poor result in the end. They feel great pride after they spend 8 hours trying to fix their broken PC.>linux is great for old computers, it will bring it back to life!!That is just one of the million lies Linux users tell the world in order to lure them in. They DO NOT want to help you. They want to recruit you for their cause of world wide Linux domination which they made their life goal.
>>108940312>skillisssueeThe original nvidia drivers for linux always sucked, and because no documentation for how the hardware works was ever provided by nvidia the opensource drivers also suck, and in some cases are less stable. There isn't a solution here because there was never supposed to be a solution here. If you want to use that old hardware, you have to use an old operating system and old drivers. Everyone in the retropc scene knows this. They also know the earliest drivers (with the least mitigations) often run the best, but you should really try several to see which is best for your usecase/game. This is also why matrox GPUs still have some value, they always had good drivers and they still maintain them.
Works fine on my machine
>>108938747>>linux is great for old computers, it will bring it back to life!!it's actually enraging how not true this is for popular distros.why does ubuntu have higher system requirements than Win 11, let alone 10 or 7?
>>108940400>why does ubuntu have higher system requirements than Win 11, let alone 10 or 7?now try running windows 10 on minimal specifications after updating it without any tweaks
>>108940359>Linux is awesome for old computers. It will run so much better and faster than Windows!>nvidia drivers (90+% of the market share) were always terrible on Linux and everyone knows this. You should throw your old hardware away and buy AMD. You aren't poor are you?It is always the same, make some broad statement to entice new users and then later switch the narrative. So why do people say that Linux is good for old hardware?Cons:-bad hardware support-bad software support-bad driver support-buggy with lots of crashes and sporadic performance issues-some issues have no fixPros:-You get a new hobby of tinkering with your computer-something something privacy and freedomThe only time Linux even makes sense for old hardware is when your current hardware doesn't let you upgrade to Windows 11 and your computer use consists solely of a browser. Even then just staying with Windows 10 would be less hassle.
>>108940400Ubuntu isn't for old computers.
>>108940519I'm not sure you're getting it. If NVidia doesn't want to tell anyone but Microsoft how to communicate with their hardware, that isn't an argument for why linux is shit, BSD is shit, Apple is shit, etc. It's an argument for why Nvidia is shit.
>>108938747All Linux advocates are weird, anti-social autists. You'll never see normal well-adjusted people push for Linux. They may use it for their job (but most of the time they will just use macOS or Windows) but the people doing online evangelism are without fail weird losers. The anime posts are a dead give-away. No Linux does not revive dead hardware. That's false. Almost everything Linux evangelists claim is false. Linux for desktop is just bad software. Bad software wastes your time fixing it and configuring it to work. That's why it's bad. Windows and macOS don't do this.
>>108940519>The only time Linux even makes sense for old hardware is when your current hardware doesn't let you upgrade to Windows 11So according to your retarded logic Linux makes sense for old hardware only if this "old" hardware older than 2018? Because this is the only reason why Windows won't let you to "upgrade" it to Windows 11.And yet everything after 2018 works great on Linux, including Nvidia and AMD hardware. And if you want to use some really old ass Nvidia GPU you can still do it thanks to community maintainers who fix Nvidia glue code to actually run on modern kernels https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#InstallationAnd on Windows 11 you can't do that, because guess what? Nvidia didn't release old drivers with Windows 11 support lol.>but I can just use old unmaintained Windows 7/10 buildLmao
i have linux mint running on my old hp pavillion desktop with an rx 560 for browsing/shitposting and low end gaymin, my machine works fine.
>>108941128I'm not saying that it is the fault of Linux that Nvidia doesn't work well. It has such a small market share that you wouldn't expect it to be well supported after all. I just find it dumb when people talk about Linux like it will solve all their problems while ignoring about a hundred caveats that you will only know about once you have actually started using it.>>108941258>So according to your retarded logic Linux makes sense for old hardware only if this "old" hardware older than 2018?I would say turning an old insecure Windows 7/10 machine into something you could confidently use for basic computing tasks by installing Linux is a pretty fair use case if it is somewhat supported.
>>108938747Linux has been shit since gamergate. The exact same nonsense, catering to queers and fags, the only development has been ricing the fuck out of every dm in existence while neglecting everything that made Linux better and forgetting everything Linux still needed. There is no software made without community and the community is trash
>>108940400Canonical is being more honest than Microsoft about what "minimum" means.
>>108938747Using the latest Fedora (cinnamon spin) on a 2017 Dell Precision with a Quadro GPU from 2015. Runs perfectly with HWA. You just have to install the correct branch of the Nvidia driver for your GPU.>GNOME Web is the only browser on linux that supports legacy nvidia hardwareI get full HWA with that Quadro on both Firefox and Brave. How legacy are we talking here? Is your GPU 20 years old? Older? I'm sure you can find a distro that has the appropriate drivers in their repos. Try PCLOS.
