[RaisingSpear]

I can run current Linux distros on 15 year old hardware without issue. If the vendor wants to drop support earlier, that's up to them, but it's a reason why people want open drivers.

Also, local stores around me still sell new GT 710s. Probably has something to do with Nvidia not making any low end GPUs since.

> Expecting even open source volunteers to maintain support for every old GPU

The great thing about open source is that anyone can fork the code and maintain support themselves. You don't get that option with proprietary drivers.