diff --git a/platform/osx/os_osx.mm b/platform/osx/os_osx.mm
index 1505a6063b..472910d670 100644
--- a/platform/osx/os_osx.mm
+++ b/platform/osx/os_osx.mm
@@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@ Error OS_OSX::initialize(const VideoMode &p_desired, int p_video_driver, int p_a
 
 	if (gl_initialization_error) {
 		OS::get_singleton()->alert("Your video card driver does not support any of the supported OpenGL versions.\n"
-								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU upgrade it.",
+								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU, upgrade it.",
 				"Unable to initialize Video driver");
 		return ERR_UNAVAILABLE;
 	}
diff --git a/platform/uwp/os_uwp.cpp b/platform/uwp/os_uwp.cpp
index c8ad16a5e9..c2ffd15dc2 100644
--- a/platform/uwp/os_uwp.cpp
+++ b/platform/uwp/os_uwp.cpp
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ Error OS_UWP::initialize(const VideoMode &p_desired, int p_video_driver, int p_a
 
 	if (gl_initialization_error) {
 		OS::get_singleton()->alert("Your video card driver does not support any of the supported OpenGL versions.\n"
-								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU upgrade it.",
+								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU, upgrade it.",
 				"Unable to initialize Video driver");
 		return ERR_UNAVAILABLE;
 	}
diff --git a/platform/windows/os_windows.cpp b/platform/windows/os_windows.cpp
index 3836c39069..ec4db7ed05 100644
--- a/platform/windows/os_windows.cpp
+++ b/platform/windows/os_windows.cpp
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ Error OS_Windows::initialize(const VideoMode &p_desired, int p_video_driver, int
 
 	if (gl_initialization_error) {
 		OS::get_singleton()->alert("Your video card driver does not support any of the supported OpenGL versions.\n"
-								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU upgrade it.",
+								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU, upgrade it.",
 				"Unable to initialize Video driver");
 		return ERR_UNAVAILABLE;
 	}
diff --git a/platform/x11/os_x11.cpp b/platform/x11/os_x11.cpp
index 4c1a65678b..4467fe7c69 100644
--- a/platform/x11/os_x11.cpp
+++ b/platform/x11/os_x11.cpp
@@ -350,7 +350,9 @@ Error OS_X11::initialize(const VideoMode &p_desired, int p_video_driver, int p_a
 
 	if (gl_initialization_error) {
 		OS::get_singleton()->alert("Your video card driver does not support any of the supported OpenGL versions.\n"
-								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU upgrade it.",
+								   "Please update your drivers or if you have a very old or integrated GPU, upgrade it.\n"
+								   "Alternatively, you can force software rendering by running Godot with the `LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1`\n"
+								   "environment variable set, but this will be very slow.",
 				"Unable to initialize Video driver");
 		return ERR_UNAVAILABLE;
 	}