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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way t…
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    I guess he can’t say he uses arch btw

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      It’s not that bad as I understand it. If you are using arch with a Pascal GPU you can switch to the legacy proprietary branch. https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

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      He wants to use Mint. This is what is called planned obsolescence. I say what Linus Torvalds says.

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        I have a 1050 Ti running the 580 driver under Linux Mint; it works fine.

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        Might be able to use Mint Debian Edition.

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