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Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can't fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.

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[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 125 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Upgrading your GPU on Linux

-realise you can't afford a GPU and keep your old one

Upgrading your GPU on Windows

-realise you can't afford a GPU and keep your old one

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 17 hours ago

Windows still complains.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 5 points 20 hours ago

Oh I dunno, it only has to be new to me. I've spent the last few days swapping around some GPUs that came out circa 2010, seeing if I can get them working with folding@home. Fun enough as it is, but I'm sure it would have been way more fun with Windows.

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