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Refurbishing an old ThinkPad for a friend -- Debian, Fedora or something else?
  • @Suiseiseki @piezoelectron > Even newer AMD ones should work with a native resolution, but you won't get 3D acceleration nor suspend.

    From my personal experience, AMD GPUs from 2017 and newer do not have working 3D rendering support at all without nonfree blobs, only BIOS works, which means you're stuck on tty at 800x600 resolution, I have no clue if Nvidia newer cards also have the same issue as I've not touched an Nvidia card since GTX 10 series nor I have plans on doing so, but I wouldn't be surprised newer cards have the exact same issue.

  • Refurbishing an old ThinkPad for a friend -- Debian, Fedora or something else?
  • @Suiseiseki @piezoelectron > (although that's usually only really 802.11ac Wi-Fi cards and decent external or internal 802.11n ones are rather cheap)

    And any discrete GPU will also give trouble, specially newer AMD and Nvidia ones.