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by joe_mamba 58 days ago
Do you have a detailed source for this? I want to read more about it.

Because I noticed my old Core 2 Quad PC with Nvidia 8600GT that my parents use as their email and Facebook machine, doesn't boot with any linux newer than Kernel 6.1 even though I can get Windows 11 to boot on it.

So the myth around "Linux is great for old PCs", highly depends on what HW you have.
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dwroberts 57 days ago
> even though I can get Windows 11 to boot on it

But by modifying it right? Because the core 2 does not support SSE4.2

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esseph 58 days ago
Sounds like an Nvidia driver module issue more than anything else. If I had to guess, simply removing the Nvidia module should fix that and still get you video through one of the various backup paths (opennuveau etc)
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joe_mamba 57 days ago
You can run no-mode-set to get video output at boot/installation phase but then you're stuck with 800x600. That's with the FOSS nouveau driver in the kernel.

There's no fixes that I could find. My LLM research says nouveau dropped support for that Nvidia architecture on newer kernels. Bummer.

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esseph 56 days ago
> Bummer

You can still use an older 6.x kernel, but yeah... It's had almost a 20yr run! 2007 release.

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