I believe I had the Riva tnt2. After that upgrading to the original GeForce 256. Was on my Intel Celeron 300A that you could overclock to a whopping 450mhz!

I've been using Ermagherd Hertspert for years. Still makes me chuckle once in a while.

That there is absolutely nobody and nothing in this world that wants to do me harm or ruin my day. Stuff happens. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. Nobody is out to get you, everyone has something more important to do.

I honestly never tried this because everything worked perfectly when I would eventually switch back to windows.

Thats fair. And for that reason i just keep going back to windows after trying out linux and waiting for it to catch up. Its come a looooooong way. I guess with the accelerated enshitification of windows i feel like i would like to get out asap. :P

I never used the nouveau driver. Always the proprietary or the one bundled with nobara. One of my first headaches under proxmox was gpu pass through on a Nvidia card that necessitated blowing away all the nouveau drivers in the system. Basically scared me away from every using it. 😋

Honestly arch always sounded exhausting to me. I'm fine with cli interfaces but arch always came across as requiring a lot of personal investment that I wasnt really ready for. Might be my best option at this point tho

Yeah. Wayland + Nvidia seems to = sadness it seems. Might be worth a go.

Fair. But I like to think that's less about me and more about them.

Never saw that one before. I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

Never tried that one. Might be worth a go.

Kinda the conclusion I reached as well. Next build I intend to go with Radeon specially so i can try and get rid of windows but that's not really in the budget right now

Had the hibernate issues on my work laptop so I have run into those before. I made sure to disable it. It's a custom built Watercooled rig so I have a Corsair 1200 watt power supply in it. Heat has never been an issue. It's getting a bit old but it's been pretty rock solid. This machine was only ever a gaming machine. It ran steam and that's about it. It was even powered off most of the day. Only ever turned it on when I was playing something. So the wear on it hasn't been too intense. I have only really used the proprietary Nvidia drivers so I'm not sure what the alternatives are (nobara I think has some custom ones but had lots of performance issues with nobara). My monitors are different sizes/resolutions/refresh rates. One is 5120x1440 120hz and the others are just generic 1920x1080 60hz When it would happen, It would boot to a screen that wasn't the default. At least one screen would be black. So I would log in and try to get it to recognize whatever monitor or monitors were missing. Sometimes it would work. Sometimes a reboot would fix it. Sometimes the system would hang or take several minutes to boot. It's been a couple weeks since I got frustrated and tried to use it so I can't remember what was making the boot hang. When all I use it for is to play games and I get random monitor disconnects it quickly becomes useless when something doesn't work right on every boot. I really don't know what changes tho. When it's first installed everything works. It lets me set up everything. All I really do is updates and then start setting up steam. Install some games through lutris and then will shut down. Sometimes I'll get a day or two of working fine out of it, then monitor issues start popping up. And I haven't really used Linux for entertainment before so I switch back to windows for a while and everything works. But. Windoze. So every once in a while I try Linux again and am not really sure how to deal with it as a gaming device. Read it would be better if I was running an AMD video card but just not in the budget for a rebuild right now, but I am due for one.

I believe so. That is used by default in Ubuntu yes?

Ive tried nobara, I've tried Ubuntu, I've tried popOS, and I think also tried mint. I'm not 100% sure on that one tho... I feel like alot of my attempts have just blurred together at his point...

Eh. I like what I like. Being able to glance down for a guide or look at who is messaging me on discord is preferable to having to do key presses to switch to a new workspace, then switch back. Maybe im just too old to learn new stuff. 😋

Gave this a try today and actually am pleasantly surprised. So far its been pretty solid and i'm enjoying the feel of it.

So far i've actually been pretty impressed. I got it up and running pretty seamlessly. Displays are still a bit weird. One of my displays seems to not want to come on at boot, but just turning it on from standby mode once its booted and it works fine. Was able to install a few games via lutris and steam with no issues. Everything is running pretty good so far, but its literally been installed for a couple hours only. So it will be interesting to see how at least the next few days go.

Honestly the desktop environments is where I kinda get spacey with linux. The cli makes sense to me. Installing different desktops hasn't been very successful for me. Which distros use KDE plasma?