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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux (hackaday.com)
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Windows doesn't force update your driver and remove support though, and even if it did it won't drop you to some CLI, it will still work.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Rolling distros also only update when you tell them. It is the user who is pulling the trigger on the footgun in both cases.

    I'd say the main difference is that arch users are more trigger-happy about being up to date.

    Also, I think pacman should at least warn you if the problem is enough to warrant a post on the arch website.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sorta, but you run one command to update everything at once, and even though the system knows what GPU you have it still seems to update the driver to one thats not compatible, instead of holding that update back.

    Also if it didn't warn the user when updating, the user had no idea they were pulling any trigger, especially when Linux falls back to CLI after this instead of just falling back to a basic driver.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    What you described is what happaned with arch. The transitioning shouldn't have happened this way, IMO.

    Other distros usually don't send their users to TTY after an update if they can help it.

    On the long term, the situation is the same on linux and windows: you choose the latest driver and live with that given feature set and its bugs.

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