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There is no old computer only bad os.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      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

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      11 hours ago

      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.

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        7 hours ago

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

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            4 hours ago

            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

    • Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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      11 hours ago

      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