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with a 670M

Your GPU doesn’t support latest drivers, and older drivers are a nuisance.

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Bummer 😓

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Rest of the system should work with iGPU, if you aren’t interested in heavy gaming you can use Linux just fine.

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Unironically, the best bet for them is nvidia 540xx drivers on the AUR with an LTS kernel.

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Nvidia’s website returns me only 390 and 415 for 670M

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I probably misremembered something then, 390xx it is then.

But whatever it may be it is in the AUR 100%.

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I’m not up on current Linux drivers, how good/bad is that news? 🥴

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It’s very good.

Basically, there is one maintainer in the AUR (the name escapes me, jonathon I think it was?) who applies the necessary patches to the old NVIDIA drivers to make them run with a modern Linux kernel.

Of course, there won’t be any Wayland support, but the experience is acceptable as long as you temper your expectations in terms of graphics API support. (No vulkan sadly)

I hadn’t used it myself but I know a person who does and loves it. iGPU handles Wayland stuff while the NVIDIA is there for the heavy lifting in Xorg.

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