Alright, you know what? I'll be switching. ( kbin.social )

azvasKvklenko , 10 months ago

On the old NVIDIA driver, if you’re brave, they’re still available and on Arch(-based) pretty easy to install. I used some old desktop GeForce 6xx with it last time around 2020 and it worked for basic stuff, like desktop compositing, OpenGL games or even some WineD3D. Don’t expect it to run anything somehow modern. And yes, with the driver you’re limited to X11 session.

If you also have iGPU and it’s switchable, the only option to somehow achieve offloading (switching the graphics dynamically) would be through unofficial methods like Bumblebee.

Also, graphics that old should have some support in the open source Nouveau driver, that will probably be loaded by default on most distros. If I’d be stuck with such chip, that would be my first thing to check if it isn’t enough for my planned use-cases.