Re: Zero plans to upgrade
And even if you are a gamer.. as a LInux user since like 1994, I can say the Linux 3D stack, and Wine, have both gotten excellent in the last like 3-4 years. Kudos to Valve and all the Mesa and Wine developers (and Nvidia for their excellent drivers). I have like 99% game compatibility, and (for games that don't just hit the 60FPS cap if a game has one..) it's common for games to get a solid 110-125% the frame rate in Linux compared to Windows. My friend had a *Sandy Bridge* and that (despite only having DX10 support in Windows.. Intel's support period ended a month before DX11 came out so they never shipped DX11 drivers for it), it'd run DX11 games fine in Linux. After some patch a few years ago, the FPS got like a 50% boost too. It still was a potato but it was shocking to start throwing all these games on there and have like 80-90% run and have like 70-80% of those have a playable framerate was pretty shocking.
I have a Nvidia desktop, Intel notebook (11th gen Intel, 1115G4), and had a AMD (Ryzen 3450U) just before the Intel one. There's nothing to say, other than games that have specific blocks (like Fortnite, where the anti-cheat specifically detects Wine or Proton so it won't run), it Steam and wine+dxvk/vkd3d seem to run literally every game I throw at them. And if you have an older chip, the support is ridiculous...
I threw an Ubuntu 24.04 (pre-release) install on a *Core 2 Duo*.. this thing is 17 years old.. and not only is the GPU still supported, it's the oldest model (GM965) that has TOTALLY modern Mesa Gallium drivers (Crocus supports it.) i was not brave enough to try running any games on it. I ran steam remote play on it though (streaming off my desktop) and that was flawless. The thing is a bit of a power hog though, it was using like 20-30W of power streaming LOL... I had it plugged in and it's a chunky one so it doesn't try to roast your lap.