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I’m no expert but it’s fairly easy to mitigate.

From https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to the legacy proprietary branch to maintain support: Uninstall the official nvidia, nvidia-lts, or nvidia-dkms packages. Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

Translates to:

sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia nvidia-lts nvidia-dkms

yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms

In attempting this, I still had a conflict with lib32-nvidia-utils, so this should work better:

sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia nvidia-lts nvidia-dkms lib32-nvidia-utils

yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils

Using yay -Syy nvidia-580xx-dkms lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils means you don’t have to manually approve these replacement packages in the process, I think?

EndeavourOS, BTW

My family still runs two of this mobo, but older revisions. I remember hearing about bugs with IOMMU but I can’t recall any USB or other problems.

IOMMU can be disabled in BIOS; it seems that it would only be useful if passing devices through to a virtual machine? Is that a valid assessment?

Sober… Roblox

It works great for my family! Only annoyance is having to run flatpak update often.

Two of my family members are still rocking machines of this vintage. Get a Vishera-based (8300 series) FX CPU if you can find it cheap, so you at least have x86-64-v2 instruction set. It helps. You probably have (Realtek?) gigabit networking onboard, but an Intel gigabit card will improve networking performance.

When streaming, you’re running the game and encoding video at the same time. This will make the PC double as a space heater, which might be OK if you’re in the northern hemisphere and approaching winter! 😉

No.

See also: US Gov’t taking a stake in Intel.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/talks-are-reportedly-underway-for-the-us-gov-to-take-a-stake-in-intel-and-its-share-price-has-already-jumped-7-percent-in-response/

I’m guessing that PCs preloaded with Windows 12 will have locked bootloaders.

It turns out that there isn’t one big break, there are many small cracks that have been patched. I was reading about 13% performance increase in benchmarks, which seems significant.

Ah, here it is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/debian-13-benchmarks

Correct. Like “plunge” without the “lu”.

Problem is that they would still need to have some kind of authentication to avoid offline backups becoming clone factories. I used to give away Mews and Celebis by trading them and then restoring my cart’s SRAM with a portable backup device.

That’s funny! If someone was trying to infect my PC via e-mail, I would expect them to be sending pdf files.

Also check out ELKS for your even older CPUs.

Sadly, the DRM-free version is nerfed, no multiplayer?

I missed it when it was $2 on Steam a month ago… :(

No problem. I think in my case only Wine/Proton games were doing it and native Linux games were fine. I shake my fist at Nvidia and carry on. 😂

Try this setting: Display Configuration > Screen tearing: Allow in fullscreen windows. Whatever it’s set to, try the other setting. I had a similar issue once and this fixed it. The issue came back a long time later and switching it again fixed it. 🤷‍♂️

It’s a difficult issue to pin down. I’ve also read about video stuttering while trying to stay synched to pipewire audio which is having buffer underruns, even if your audio sounds fine. To check the audio buffer, you install and run pw-top and then watch it while you are having the video problem.

Good, it will continue to not be played at my house.

Only reasons I can think of are time and money. We sadly lost DivestOS and their projects… How about software patents, which of course are bullshit; but even illegitimate threats can ruin small businesses and lone programmers who don’t have the time and money to defend themselves.

Or bad Dell drivers, or Microsoft software. Not my picture, take with a grain of salt as they say.

No offense, but some other folks apparently felt the need to downvote you, probably because modern GNU/Linux is a copy of Windows, which is a copy of Macintosh, which is a copy of Xerox Alto.

GNU/Linux is missing important stuff because manufacturers only pay someone to write drivers for Windows and sometimes Mac, because those are the dominant “normal user” OSes, because those are the OSes that manufacturers support… etc…