Debian runs like a champ on my 8 year old CPU. When will gpus last that long?
However, I do want to complain about the poor tooling around GPUs, particularly package managers, and closedness of drivers. Getting stuff to work on your GPU is often a shitty and time-consuming experience.
The MacBook Pro I bought in the same year is officially classed as "obsolete" by Apple.
I've also been running the same i5-3470 CPU since it was new.
Computers can last a long, long time if you can bear the thought of not being on the bleeding edge. Otherwise, yeah, you're going to be paying a premium for brand new tech. That's the trade you make chasing the newest and shiniest thing.
Well AMD just ended support for Vega and Polaris architectures so you're shit out of luck there, proving the point of this thread.
And AMD was selling Vega APUs all the way in 2022. So imagine a year later you get the news that the chip in your system is not getting updates because it's architectures is too old. Lol.
I wish I couldn't forget AMD for this.
We give shit to Microsoft for W11 needing quite modern hardware even though the 10 year old W10 will still keep working after support stops, so why don't we hold HW manufacturers to a similar standard for supporting their shit longer than a year?
So forgive me for feeling stabbed in the back by being dumped on only a year after purchase.
My main computer runs a nvidia NVS5400m. It's been out of support for a very long time. I genuinely wasn't even aware that my AMD GPU was still in support at all.
Support affects me exactly none. I'll just use whatever default driver my Linux distro provides and never think of it. I'll get whatever kind of performance it provides. As long as it's above 30fps and textures aren't obviously broken, I don't care.