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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux (hackaday.com)

submitted 2 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (23 children)

According to the Steam HW survey around 6% of users are still using Pascal (10xx) GPUs. That's about 8.4 million GPUs losing proprietary driver support. What a waste.

GPU    %
1060    1.86
1050ti  1.43
1070    0.78
1050    0.67
1080    0.5
1080ti  0.38
1070ti  0.24

Fixed: 1050 was noted as 1050ti

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (20 children)

8.4 million GPUs losing proprietary driver support.

Are they all on Linux though?

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Are they supported longer on the windows driver?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours 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.

[–] christopher@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

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

It will, if you install the informant package from the aur or the chaotic-aur unofficial repo.

Otherwise you can follow the advice in the wiki System maintenance page, which says to read the home page, or news RSS feed, or arch-announce mailing list before upgrading.

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