• RustyShacklefordEnglish
    111·
    3 months ago

    I have an old ASUS laptop with a 670M on Windows 7, any prayer the jump to Linux for drivers will be smooth? 🤞

    I have an i914900KF desktop on windows 11 (I have to use it) and loathe the OS lol. Definitely wish there were programs for chopping down Windows 11 spyware crap.

        • mrvictory1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Rest of the system should work with iGPU, if you aren’t interested in heavy gaming you can use Linux just fine.

        • RustyShacklefordEnglish
          61·
          3 months ago

          I’m not up on current Linux drivers, how good/bad is that news? 🥴

          • xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5·
            3 months ago

            It’s very good.

            Basically, there is one maintainer in the AUR (the name escapes me, jonathon I think it was?) who applies the necessary patches to the old NVIDIA drivers to make them run with a modern Linux kernel.

            Of course, there won’t be any Wayland support, but the experience is acceptable as long as you temper your expectations in terms of graphics API support. (No vulkan sadly)

            I hadn’t used it myself but I know a person who does and loves it. iGPU handles Wayland stuff while the NVIDIA is there for the heavy lifting in Xorg.

          • xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            I probably misremembered something then, 390xx it is then.

            But whatever it may be it is in the AUR 100%.