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i was going to install linux on my old alienware alpha because of windows 10 ending support, but it would appear that if i do that i'm not going to really be able to play games on it due to a lack of support for older nvidia cards (as far as playing games goes).
so my only two options are really either to keep it on windows 10 and just say fuck it, or upgrade to windows 11 unofficially and hope nothing breaks.
@beardalaxy Nouveau works better on older cards. If you have not tried both then the Manjaro live ISO lets you pick either on boot to easily test
@frost i've seen some people get it up and running with bazzite and such but the performance is often times dreadful. it's not like i'm doing anything crazy on it, it's like ps4-tier, but i still want to scrape together as much performance as i can get out of the thing.
i was under the impression that the nouveau drivers were worse than the official ones for gaming so that might be a no-go if that's the case. it's not really a matter of getting basic driver support, but getting good performance out of a machine that is stuck in the ps4 era.
@beardalaxy From what I am hearing you have not tried either