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What distro would you recommend to harness the full power of this semi old cheapo PC with an NVIDIA GPU? (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use KDE Neon on my laptop and I'd prefer to have KDE as a DE on this one too (if possible) but I don't mind a non Ubuntu base. Basically I'd just like to be able to play games on it without much hassle but I know how to paste commands into the terminal if the need arises.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

            
              This PC is not old.
Literally every Distro works on such new hardware

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nobara doesn't because the GPU is too old, that's why I asked. But Bazzite has a legacy version so it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

In that case you can just use fedora itself and install the drivers that way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This can't be. I am using a GPU from the same Pascal generation and just installed the newest availabe Nvidia 570 driver. I also use a Laptop with intel 4770HQ and Nvidia 950m GPU running with the same driver under the same Nobara 42 version with KDE.

You should switch from the open driver to the closed one, if your gpu is in one of the lists: https://wiki.nobaraproject.org/graphics/nvidia/supported-gpus

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They explicitly mention the GTX 10xx series not being supported due to being too old. I'm sure there's a workaround but bazzite works out the box so I'm set.