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With old hardware, beggars can't be choosers. I get the appeal of the nouveau driver, but if your goal is to save a machine from the landfill, it's probably the better compromise to use the proprietary driver and keep it actually competitive for as long as possible. Those 900/1000 series cards are still plenty powerful today, even if they can't quite do AAA gaming anymore.