So I have an old laptop from 2013 and WinBLOWS 10 chugs on this thing on good days. Today it’s struggling with yet another “update” that acts more like malware, it hogs 100% of your hdd and the actual install process can take upwards to an hour. So like MicroSHAFT wants me to buy a brand new PC, at a time when GPU prices are astronomical, all so I can run 11 on it. On what planet am I going to want to continue using your service when you’ve been this bad to me? Maybe if you buy me a new computer I might consider using 11 but I highly doubt Bill Gate$$ is going to send me a check in the mail anytime soon.
Gotta get off my ass and instal Mint soon.
I have a laptop that’s about as old as yours. Windows and Intel stopped supporting the drivers for the wifi, so you couldn’t connect to the internet wirelessly on it. I installed Mint and it works out of the box.
On the Nvidia drivers, that’s more for the latest drivers. A card that old should have support. I put Mint on my desktop with a 4090 and it frames pretty bad compared to W10. I might switch to Bazzite and see if that improves it. I put baz on another laptop with a quaddro card from like 2021 and it works perfectly.
Nvidia has known and identified problems with DX12->Vulkan translations in the proton stack. As of a few days ago they think they know what’s causing it but it was postured as a nontrivial fix. Still glad to see though and hopefully once that’s ironed out Nvidia on Linux with proprietary drivers will be pristine (outside of unrelated anticheat problems).
The takeaway is to always launch and play games using Vulkan if possible.