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Apparently? Title only mentions dropping the support on Linux. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I believe the same SW version is packaged. Nvidia said they'd drop support in the 580 release, but they shifted it to 590 now.
The arch issues are another layer of headache by the maintainers changing the package names and people breaking their systems on update when a non-compatible version is pulled replacing the one with still pascal support in it.
Not really a problem of Arch, but of the driver release model, then, IMO. You'd have this issue on Windows too if you just upgraded blindly, right? It's Nvidia's fault for not naming their drivers, or versioning/naming them in a way that indicates support for a set of architectures. Not just an incrementing number willy nilly.
Windows doesnt drop to CLI and break if the graphics driver is missing. But also GPU driver updates are not forced on you just by updating the system.
Okay. Kind of a matter of definition of "breaking" but sure.
Right. But on Linux they happen automatically when upgrading the rest of your system, is what I was saying.