Can’t even achieve stable 60 fps anymore. What a hunk of junk. /s
Since this isn’t really Linux-specific…EDIT: [I use] Debian btw?
Look, I’m not about to suggest the 4790K is the best CPU for the money today, but if you bought one way back in '14 and upgraded around it over time, you’re still doing alright. This is still at stock clock. Been meaning to OC it. I previously ran an R9 290 until my wife surprised me with the 4070 for my birthday a couple years ago.
Great CPU then. Still pretty good today. Maybe I’ll still give it a few years before I upgrade.
If I understand aright, the complaint is that a 4790K doesn’t support TPM 2.0, required for Windows 11, and Windows 10 is EOLing.
I mean, sure, you can put Linux on it. I use Debian myself, but I’m sure whatever major distro would be fine. I think that most people are likely to tell you to use whatever distro they use.
Debian tends to be a little more conservative about doing new major stable releases than a number of distros, usually about once every two years. Ubuntu, for example, does a new release every six months (or did last I looked). That could be good or bad, depending upon how frequently you want to deal with upgrades, how much testing you want your application software to get, and how recent you want it to be. I tend to use Debian testing on the desktop, rather than waiting for stable releases, but I’m also comfortable fixing the machine if anything goes wrong.
Is it a reasonable machine to keep using? I mean, I dunno. Depends on what you’re doing with it. If you were happy with performance as things have been, sure. Serial compute performance hasn’t been increasing very quickly since about the early 2000s. Lots of tasks rely on serial compute. Will it play the latest AAA game as well as the newest hardware? Probably not. Linux will give you more flexibility to maybe use a lighter desktop environment if you want, but a given game or web browser is still gonna have to run the same calculations. Putting Linux on it won’t normally make a game run twice as quickly or something like that.
My bad that it didn’t get across that I do use Debian lol I have been for a while now. I don’t mind dealing with outdated packages because it’s stable. Would a more up-to-date distro be more or less stable? I don’t know enough to comment on it, but with the stability issues I experienced in Windows (unrelated to the oc), I really wanted something that I could throw on there and leave alone for a few years.
I also drive a car from the 90s and I look at any IoT device with contempt. The refrigerator stays off my network.
But yeah, with the Win 10 EOL coming up, I wasn’t gonna upgrade because my machine really still does everything I want it to do. This was a bit more of a shit post. My PC didn’t hit 60 FPS in a game that it doesn’t even meet minimum spec for. Iirc, Cyberpunk requires at least a 7700K. Wasn’t looking for advice. Just messing around. ;)
The most I use my PC for outside of gaming is surfing the web, spreadsheets, and hosting files. Nice to have my own collection of movies to stream when the Internet goes down lol
I’m not implying that my PC running Debian is twice as fast as it was on Windows. I just really appreciate two things about it: 1) This CPU is still fast enough for what I want from it a decade later, and 2) That Linux was so much easier to learn than I ever anticipated. I guess it helps that I ran Ubuntu on various laptops for a decade before moving my gaming PC to a Linux distro.