i’ve been meaning to try it, but my company’s machines are still x11-only

ssh -XC

it runs a bit slow, but it is surprisingly usable. in some aspects, it has almost the same performance as vnc with the difference that it is integrated with the system. i have a 600 mbps internet connection

yup. it’s still nice and also pretty funny that wayland provides a better x11 experience than x11

it’s not really a need, it’s more an imposition. we’re forced to do everything via the app

react os is unusable

yes because kde supports client-side decorations and server-side decorations. gnome only supports client-side decorations

I’m sure they have their reasons

maybe compatibility reasons. i guess they used to support i386 back in the day and didn’t want to break the couple of systems that were installed on bo and have been upgrading ever since

Not all 32-bit systems are i386

but the debian i386 architecture means all 32 bit x86 processors. there’s no “i686” build of debian

there are no i586 or i686 kernel or iso available, you can look for them. i386 packages only exist for compatibility reasons, so you can run 32 bit applications on amd64 machines. please read the release notes

https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#reduced-support-for-i386

From trixie, i386 is no longer supported as a regular architecture: there is no official kernel and no Debian installer for i386 systems

[…]

Users running i386 systems should not upgrade to trixie. Instead, Debian recommends either reinstalling them as amd64, where possible, or retiring the hardware.

@ everyone recommending debian: it no longer supports 32 bit x86 machines: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#reduced-support-for-i386

i wouldn’t recommend debian since they’ve dropped 32 bit support in trixie, their latest release. the previous release, bookworm, still supports 32 bits archs, but it eol’s less than a year from now

you’re right. i thought my card didn’t support it because i might have misread the feature matrix. adding to the confusion, /dri/0 is my onboard video (which also happens to be nvidia) and that’s where i got the 400 mhz number from

still, i just tried it reclocking seems to drive the video signal crazy

edit: yeah it’s definitely unsupported, the display turns completely into scrambled eggs. i’ll try a newer kernel just in case

edit 2: tried it on the 6.16 kernel (i have an opensuse tumbleweed installation laying around) just in case it had some development on that front compares to 6.12 (debian’s version) and it’s still a mess. so reclocking for my card is definitely a no-no on nouveau

wait, for real?

according to this online psu calculator: https://www.coolermaster.com/pt-br/power-supply-calculator/

• my current psu (400 watts) can barely handle a 970

• and for very little it can’t handle the radeon

i could buy a new psu, though… it would be cheaper than a new graphics card, i think

bem lembrado o olx. é que pra comprar no olx tem que preparar bastante o emocional, mas eu moro no rio, então deve ter bastante opção sim. 300-400 é o que eu paguei na minha, então acho que tá de boa

that’s not my experience with it at all. on bookworm with the proprietary it worked pretty well (with only occasional crashes every other month). even now it works fine aside from the lower performance (and no suspend).

i’m actually okay with hardware suggestions, but they tend to be useless since a $50 or 40€ graphics card normally translates to a R$900 one. a few factors contribute to this

1. exchange rates. currently, 1USD ~= 5,5BRL
2. purchasing power. the avg income of brazil is around ~$8500/yr. 1USD is way more money to us than it is to usians and euros
3. taxes. based on exchange rates alone, $50 converts to around R$270, but most electronics in brazil are imported and are subject to heavy taxation. the “$50 video card” recommended to me by someone in the comments is sold online for R$870 at its cheapest.

although i’m talking specifically about brazil, the same applies to any other emergent market (the rest of latam, india, etc).

this is why hardware recommendations are rarely useful to us. i’m still open to them, though. once in a while something useful pops up.

You could get a used AMD card that is 10-30 times as powerful for like 30-50€

i’m open to suggestions

about the age of the card: i actually bought it new 2-3 years ago. it’s pretty common in emergent markets for cheapo cards to be shipped brand new with obsolete graphics chips. this isn’t a problem on windows, but then someone owning this card switches to linux and is hit with a massive performance loss bc of unsupported drivers. it sucks.

i’m pretty sure there’s an equivalent radeon card for around the same price and i’m willing to buy it as soon as i can, but i’m trying to get as much mileage as i can out of my current card

i’m sorry if i sounded obtuse, it was not my intention. i could get the info you want later, but my point is that i am sure that the nouveau driver is configured correctly because 1) debian ensures graphics are working properly on desktop installations for a wide array of hardware configurations and 2) i made sure dri, mesa, the firmware and the x11 driver are all installed. i just wanted to say in my reply that going down that route of investigation isn’t worth our time because it would lead to nowhere and what i’m seeking help with is installing the proprietary driver

still, i appreciate your willingness to help. i’ll check everything you mentioned when i get home just to make sure

as i said, there’s no software problem in my setup. i’ve checked nouveau’s feature matrix for my card (a geforce gt 710) and it’s one of the best supported cards, but sadly performance levels are wip. that’s the main issue

besides that, everything works fine