You won’t. You will get crashes. This is a very old nvidia driver, which was barely working on x11, and not at all on wayland. Their newer drivers are more serious. You’d be best to upgrade your PC, not just an old amd card. I personally have found many bugs that DIDN;T exist 10 years ago on open source drivers. Basically, as the kernel evolves, and the old drivers become unmaintained, new bugs emerge. So it’s best to get something new, a new pc, and not try to make this old nvidia or old amd card to work. If you can spare $180, you’ll be in a much better shape.

Then check if your PC/power supply can run an AMD or intel gpu. If not, upgrade your PC. You can get a BeeLink minipc for $180 that’s faster than your current computer.

The same situation for any distro with newer kernels.

And that’s why I’d never buy an nvidia card laptop or PC. For my Debian PC that has a Xeon CPU (so it has no integrated gpu), I bought an Intel ARC GPU for $110. For what I do, which is video editing and encoding/decoding at 10bit 4:2:2 (which is what most modern cameras record as), it’s the best card on the planet. Better than nvidia and especially amd. Not so for gaming, of course. If your CPU is a 11th+ intel generation, and it comes with an intel gpu integrated, maybe you don’t need anything more than that. Just remove or don’t use the nvidia one completely. If you don’t have a gpu, get a cheap intel.

I own the Latitude 5480 from 2017. Terrible screen, terrible speaker, heavy… Not sure about newer models.

Sounds good, thx!

I understand. BTW, I am running Linux on my M1 macbook with UTM Qemu, and linux is really, really slow under emulation (faster if you run arm versions). Even on M3/M4.

The CPU generation is important because older ones don’t clock faster than my M1 macbook. If I’m going to buy something new, it better be faster than what I already have. GPU is also important, because before the 11th gen, 4:2:2 10bit video didn’t have video encoding/decoding, which I need. Also the trackpad is terrible (I have an X280 thinkpad), so is its speaker quality afaik. Thinkpads were great laptops for an older generation. I bought one because everyone was raving about them. Except its screen and keyboard, everything else sucks on it. It won’t even support some usb-c chargers (while other laptops don’t have an issue).

I already have 5 laptops. Laptops that range from 2800 passmark points to 5500 points (older Chromebooks usually clock between 1400 and 4000 points, so yours is probably in that range). I use these laptops as testbeds mostly, not as my main laptops for work/browsing. I need something faster than my M1 Macbook Air (which clocks 14,000 points – and that’s already 5 years old). So a 6th refurbished, old, slow laptop won’t do the job.

In fact, funnily enough, I’ve done the same mistake with video cameras back in the day. I was buying cheaper stuff, thinking that one feature here, or one feature there would make out for not buying a more expensive camera. They weren’t enough. I had to wait to 2024 to actually find the video camera that I was looking for in 2011.

Same for phones. Even after the popularization of the iphone and android, I still didn’t like them. I had to wait until about 2018-or-so, to feel that they had matured to the level I envisioned them 15 years earlier!

I guess I have certain ideas on what I want from hardware and anything less doesn’t cut it…

Did you even read the post with my required specs? :)

btw, can you really replace the ssd/ram on these xps 13s? I found one afor $1700, and in greece they ask for $2500 if you spec it with 32gb of ram. But if I can replace it myself easily, that would be nice.

This is very useful, thank you. I will investigate!

I’m in Greece. The price it gives me as an absolute minimum for that spec (plus power adapter, etc) is 1707 euros. And I added the better screen, to match the macbook air, plus the usb adapters (it has four slots). Then the price ballooned to $2050 euros.

all of them do?

I’m sure you have, I spec’ed one earlier today. But I can’t find ANYWHERE in their docs or spec pages if it has a fingerprint reader or not. And when spec’ed similarly, it was more expensive than a macbook air ($2065 compared to $1800). And I still don’t know about the quality of its trackpad or speakers.

Thank you, I needed to hear that…

Thank you, I think this puts it well. I’m not sure yet if I want to compromise or not, to be honest. I was hoping there’s a well-designed PC laptop out there.

In fact, 2 years ago I bought a levovo (16,000 passmark points, touchscreen, unfortunately large). I thought “ok, I’ll compromise”. But the moment my fingers touched the touchpad, I just couldn’t use it. It was just terrible. Sticky, and NOWHERE to disable the terrible tap-n-drag (I had left it with Windows11 back then).

That laptop now belongs to my niece. I just gave it away (and it was our fastest machine at our house at the time!).

This is absolutely normal. FAT/exFAT do not support unix permissions (let alone Linux ext4’s any special flags etc). So each time you copy files there, the permissions and all other flags are lost or get bad in general.

To save your permissions you have two options:

1. Zip/targzip or xz your linux files before you copy them on your fat drives. Preferably on files that overall aren’t larger than 1 gb, just to avoid other weird problems.

2. Use ext4 on your external drives.

Maybe your computer has hardware problems that manifest at random times as software problems. I personally got a Beelink mini PC for $160 (16 GB of ram), and it worked perfectly with Linux first time, no issues thereafter.

There is a mintupgrade app you’d need to install it run it from the terminal, and it lets you upgrade the OS. However, waiting just 4-5 days to get the 22.2 is always the best idea.