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!

Yeah. Wayland + Nvidia seems to = sadness it seems. 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

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. 😋

Never tried that one. Might be worth a 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?

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…