Fair, but PC games have always required upgrading hardware to play the latest games. I have upgraded GPUs 4 times since 2011.

I can even see GPUs that support vulkan on my local online marketplace for $20.

Both of those cards are unfortunately the last cards from AMD and Intel to not support Vulkan. Both the 7000 series (2012) and Broadwell (2015) support Vulkan.

I understand the frustration, but those are very old and very slow devices. A discrete GPU or a used laptop that supports Vulkan is likely less than $100-200 on eBay.

Worst case scenario, you could use llvmpipe software rendering on Linux, but it would be very slow.

All graphics cards from the last 10 years have vulkan support on Linux, i would think it isn’t that expensive to find something that supports Vulkan.