For potential future reference, if I were to use Tiny 10/11 on an old computer, would I be able to easily install GPU drivers?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨vortexal@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

My laptop has an SSD that I’m not currently using and I want to use it but it currently has a copy of Windows 10 installed to it. I usually use Linux from an external hard drive and keep the preinstalled copy of Windows so that I can use it as a secondary computer when/if I buy a new one. This has been fine but along with being able to use it just in general, I’m having an issue with one of the games I tried playing and I want to test the game with an SSD to see if the issue is still present with faster storage.

Since I can’t really just buy an external SSD, I thought about just using the one I have now but this would require removing Windows, preventing me from using it in the future. I know that I could just clone the drive and archive it for later but I’d rather not waste space on it and just use Tiny10/11 if possible. So I’d just need to know if I can install GPU drivers in Tiny10/11.

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Robin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah drivers should work fine, certainly without the optional management GUIs. There might be games or launchers that don’t work. But most things will.

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- vortexal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Okay thank, I wasn’t sure if Microsoft or the GPU manufacturers would block Tiny10/11 users from installing their drivers since Microsoft blocks them from receiving Windows system/security updates.
  
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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
LiveUSB of whatever Linux, makenfreensoace on this SSD, create a filesystem, mount it, install game, run it.

Or just shrink whatever partition is on the SSD and dual boot Linux.

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- vortexal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s not what I’m asking about. I already have a dual boot between Linux Mint and WIndows 10 and I’ve had it Linux Mint installed for over a year on this computer.
  
  What I’m asking about is whether I’d be able to use Tiny10/11 to replace Windows 10 if I were to remove. I want to run games from within Linux on the SSD but I’d need to remove Windows 10 in order to use it because I’d need to reform the SSD in order for games to run properly.
  
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