• Jay@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Does Nvidia play better now with linux? I run a 14 yr old laptop (Asus k40in) but it’s got Nvidia graphics, and it didn’t work well last time I tried Linux on it. (several years ago now)

    It’s on 24/7, running win10 now and does ok, but I mainly use it for my yard cameras and light surfing when my main pc is busy doing other things.

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      9 months ago

      Its a lot better than a couple years back afaik. But as the sysadmin always preaches: dont fix if not broken! If you‘re okay with maybe having to reinstall w10 then you could try. Lubuntu was my savior btw.

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        9 months ago

        Ya it’s not a huge concern as it runs rock solid for months at a time without even needing a reboot, but I would like to eventually toss windows in the virtual recyle bin at some point.

        I have a few old hard drives kicking around, so I may swap one out one of these days and give it a shot just to try it and see how it goes.

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          9 months ago

          Thats the most sane answer! I didnt even think of this. Give lubuntu a try. Its super light weights and lxqt even revived my presumed dead granddad laptop.

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      9 months ago

      The current official Nvidia drivers seem to be pretty solid. AFAIK, they’re not great at supporting older product generations, though. The open source drivers might work better, but that’s definitely something you should find out before doing the installation.

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      9 months ago

      I think that if you use the open source NVIDIA (Nouveau) drivers it works out of the box with no performance drawbacks in the context of old GPUs