Sick of buying Nvidia.

I used to have two GT710 graphics cards then Nvidia decided to drop support for them which meant my chosen distro would after six months drops the 470 release drivers and not package them any more.

So to work around this problem I bought 2 second hand GT 1030 card thinking they would have plenty of life left as you can still buy them new. Nvidia is dropping support for the GT 10xx range in October this year.

So I have decided to test the nouveau open source driver on these cards and it works fine and not slow as someone suggested they might. Nouveau is still in development so will be patched with security updates.

As for Windows 11 the nvidia support maybe a problem but I hardly boot into Win 11 these days.

I know the Pascal (GT10xx) cards have had 11 years of nvidia support it just irks me to have to upgrade to a 3050 x 2 in such a short space of time. Anyone else been caught out by support being ended?

It has been years since I have had an NVIDIA card, I think the last one was a Geforce 3 something or other, I expect it is still here somewhere. Went to AMD and glad I did,

New AMD cards are a bit pricey although cheaper than some Nvidia. I tried an old AMD card on my Linux rig but it wouldn't work correctly and kept getting artifacts on the screen so gave up and went back to nvidia.

In reply to a post by Banger:

New AMD cards are a bit pricey although cheaper than some Nvidia. I tried an old AMD card on my Linux rig but it wouldn't work correctly and kept getting artifacts on the screen so gave up and went back to nvidia.

My AMd card is a few years old, but it works okay, in Windows and Linux. I can't see myself buying another video card to be honest, unless mine goes belly up, and then I may just say stuff it and not bother with the PC at all