I've recently seen a trend in tech communities on lemmy where people have developed this mentality that computer hardware is as disposable as a compostable cup, and that after 10-15 years you should just chuck it in the bin and get something new. If someone asks for tech support, they'll just be told to buy new hardware. If someone is saddened their hardware is no longer supported by software they are just entitled, need to pull up their bootstraps, and "only" spend $100 to get something used that will also not be supported in 5 years. It doesn't matter if there is actual information out there that'll help them either. If the hardware is old, people will unanimously decide that nothing can be done.
I've seen this even in linux communities, what happened to people giving a damn about e-waste? Why is the solution always to just throw money at the problem? It's infuriating. I've half a mind to just block every tech/software community other than the ones on hexbear at this point.
as far as ive heard intel had terrible driver support up til recently and now the drivers are good. i was actually gonna shell out more for a less powerful nvidia card myself til i heard intel drivers have gotten more usable. maybe you’re right tho and they’re still bad. its also tempting to just buy an old 1080ti for cheap. i only play at 1080p so it should be good for a while but with driver support ending soon it’s probably not worth it
They’ve definitely improved substantially very quickly as I understand it I just don’t know if they’d be at AMD’s level yet, especially with older games that came out before Intel had dgpus. I didn’t have too many issues back when I had an rx480 myself though so maybe they’ve gotten worse.