Seen in my company
There is no old computer only bad os.
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?
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.
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
I’ll be honest, I missed “from nvidia” in your comment. I thought you meant the “regular” open source ones. We’re both using the 590-open one, since the regular one found in driver manager was trash.
I mean that’s sorta the point of DKMS?
DKMS doesn’t mean it’s supported forever. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA lists incompatibilities with kernel and CPU features.
Kepler and newer GPUs don’t work with Linux kernel 5.18 and newer.
NVIDIA also doesn’t update legacy drivers for newer versions of XOrg and Wayland after support ends.
Of course nothing is supported forever, I personally wouldn’t expect support past a decade (official or unofficial)
Plenty of ten year old machines are still fast enough for most tasks. My old laptop has a quad core i7, 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD. It’s a shame it’s losing support.
It sucks but people are starting to realize that you cant support hardware forever, software evolves and older hardware simply doesn’t support certain features. I mean requiring Vukan 1.0 is pretty reasonable yet still it excludes a lot of people.
