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mesa@piefed.social to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 4 days ago

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

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mesa@piefed.social to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 4 days ago
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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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    My son was going to switch to Linux this week. He has a GTX 1060.

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      Nouveau might be good enough by now for most games that will run on a 1060, maybe worth a try.

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      I guess he can’t say he uses arch btw

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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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