Hi again, i have 4 devices and one of them is my home server and it's also my secondary PC with Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon. I want to do some graphical things but the 9400GT on it working with Nouveau drivers. Can i install legacy NVIDIA drivers on newer kernels? Because even at 720p@30FPS YouTube, it's lagging. Also some CSS effects on websites are lagging too. CPU is Core 2 Duo E7500.
9400GT on Linux
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A few thoughts come to mind on this situation. It's fairly clear that a user with that graphics card from 2008 realistically would use the nouveau driver. That's because the nvidia hardware blobs for that card are no longer supported in modern linux kernels, and deprecated in a lot of distros.
Because that graphics card has limited processing facility, it may be useful to disable hardware acceleration in the browsers, and use really lightweight software like XFCE or LXQT, or better still, just a window manager like icewm, openbox or the like. There are numerous other economical window managers to choose from.
The other problem, is that the Core 2 Duo E7500 cpu is limited as well with a low number of cores and threads. It simply gets close to maximum usage levels when running modern operating systems that may run heaps of things in the background which results in performance suffering. The user really needs to make a judicious and even painstaking analysis of what's running on a computer with such little power, and disable and stop processes that the user can do without to maintain resources for what the user wishes to run.
That all said, running a minimalist or near miminalist operating system on old hardware like this will work if the user can make the necessary adjustments. It's a prime case for trial and error testing for a user to discover the system's limitations that they will ultimately have to accept, and then see if their needs can be met within those parameters. Such is my view on the info provided
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