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minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·4 days agoAlso is on life support drivers, does not support compute shaders and is not supported by modern Linux at all.
minus-squarekugmo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 days agoLife support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-23 days agoHow so? Nvidia dropped support, so as it stands you are at the mercy of the distro maintainers to keep the old drivers in the repos.
minus-squareyeehaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agowhile fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
minus-squarealakey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoAs far as I could tell Neuveu drivers do not support older cards at all. It does load into the environment, but crashes as soon as there’s any rendering trying to happen.
minus-squarekugmo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days ago3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoThen buy a used 3060 for $250-$300
Also is on life support drivers, does not support compute shaders and is not supported by modern Linux at all.
Life support drivers yes, not supported by modern Linux is a blatant lie.
How so? Nvidia dropped support, so as it stands you are at the mercy of the distro maintainers to keep the old drivers in the repos.
while fair, the crappy open source drivers are still under development as far as I’m aware.
As far as I could tell Neuveu drivers do not support older cards at all. It does load into the environment, but crashes as soon as there’s any rendering trying to happen.
3rd party repos or packaging it yourself. On Arch you can just update the pkgbuild yourself (or any other distro really).
Then buy a used 3060 for $250-$300