Couldn’t run Windows 7, and Windows 10 ran like shit. My old PC basically got a second life with Linux.

This is Half-Life GOTY running on Wine, runs really smooth.

The only downside is lack of directX support, OpenGL is there but the integrated graphics card only supports till OpenGL 2.1, which is not enough for many things, and also slower than directX. Still, my PC feels much faster now, and doesn’t scream like a demon whenever I open up a browser :)

(Maybe I should dual boot Win7(While never connecting it to the web), just to play some more games with DirectX?)

Also, my local hospital has started using Ubuntu, their old PCs also couldn’t handle the heavy burden of running Windows I guess 🤣

  • nous@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I believe that VKD3D can give you directx support. Proton should be able to run most games these days, which is essentially a bundle of wine + vkd3d and other things. This is what valve created to run games on steam on linux/steamdeck. https://www.protondb.com/ shows what is able to run on it and it is most things that do not have some form of incompatible anticheat.

    You might have more luck not using wine directly (if that is what you are doing) and using things like steam (you can add external games to it to run them in a proton context) or lutris or heroic games launcher.

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
          2·
          2 months ago

          When is this hardware from? 2010?

          I have been using a 2013 MacBook Air recently that has Intel integrated graphics and have actually run a few Steam games in it. I also use a 2008 iMac but it actually has a dedicated GPU so that does not help with your hardware.

          Even my old stuff has more than 4 MB of RAM though. That would be hassle these days.

          I love running Linux on old kit. Way to go.

    • Machindo@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 months ago

      I really like Bottles. I also tried Lutris for Battlenet which worked really well.

      I don’t know all the differences between them though.

  • Michael H. Jenkins@infosec.pub
    15·
    2 months ago

    I’m really glad that you’re enjoying Linux, and I’m doubly glad that your hospital found a solution to keep their system running smoothly!

  • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com
    7·
    2 months ago

    Linux is great for reserecting old hardware! I had an old gaming pc I built back in 2009 (had to replace graphics card) onto which I installed guix. Now I have a raid 1 store, samba network share, and jellyfin server!

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    2 Duo. I remember when those came out and how multicore was still a novelty. Now my economy chip in my home desktop has 16 threads.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
    5·
    2 months ago

    And when it’s really unusable as a desktop anymore, it can become a headless PiHole server. There’s always a use. Back in 2005 I was using an old Pentium MMX laptop with a broken screen as a Wifi access point/router. I even bought a two-way 2.4Ghz amplifier to hang off the laptop’s PCMCIA wifi card to boost it throughout the apartment.

  • bruhduh@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    I got 3 netbooks for libreoffice and vlc usage, 2 on intel atom and one on amd brazos, flashed opensuse tumbleweed, yeah its not fast even though I upgraded it to 8gb ddr3 ram 360gb ssd and wifi 6e ax210 card, but it’s good portable 10 inch machine for 20$ each and 40$ for upgrades for each