Within the last few months I came back to blender for a few simple modeling/graphics experiments on a few occasions, but each time gave up because either of the two computers I actively use (a high-spec thinkpad from 2011 and a low-spec macbook air from 2016) didn't provide usable performance in the viewport, one way or another. I've given up on any such experiments on the macbook altogether (the hardware just isn't very capable and everything's soldered on in typical apple style planned obsolescence), but had hopes for the thinkpad, knowing that it was really just a driver problem, while the hardware was really capable. Now after spending a few hours trying to find some distro that offers legacy nvidia 390 driver and optimus support, it seems pretty clear that nvidia has killed this line of graphics cards by driver discontinuation end of 2022 and any attainable solution is probably going to be a time-intensive, unreliable hack with built-in rapid decay in one way or another.
It's bizarre how this society just throws away good things like that. ┐(シ)┌
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