Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending
lay@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
As a 15 years old pc user who likes to play games with a 15 years old nvidia graphics card. The only thing that’s preventing me from fully migrating to linux is the fact that nvidia doesn’t support my gpu anymore, so no proprietary driver, unless, I use a 6 years old kernel version.
The only choice I have for modren distros is the nouveau drivers, which lacks behind alot specially when it comes to gaming.
I now have a dual boot setup running Popos and windows, but still I can’t be fully free from Windows, having to reboot every time I feel like playing something.
I hope in the near future I get less broke to buy a new conputer or maybe the new nvk drivers will supports my gpu which is unlikely.
Dualbooting is great. Whole idea of linux is “you can tinker in any way you see fit” and putting multiple OS on a single computer is one example.
Fact that you did this at 15 is impressive btw. Willing to mess around with computers is a real skill. Half the CS students in my college had hard time setting up a fedora VM by themselves for UNIX class.
You are already ahead of actual college students in this field lol. You learnt more about computers thanks to old GPU.
ziggurat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Which graphics card?
lay@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Quadro 2000M, it’s a miracle that it support dx12 games.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s a workstation card, significantly higher grade than the consumer cards at the time. How did you even get your hands on it?
lay@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I have a 8570w hp elitebook laptop which i bought back in 2016 from an aftermarket sales shop, you rarely see a new laptop in stock here in Iraq and if there’s any they would be ridiculously over priced.
I’m used to saying pc as a general term, that might created som sort of confusion? Sorry if that’s the case.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org 2 days ago
🤔