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Oh, haha I was confused for a second about the Pascal language 🤭

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

I've had so many problems with Nvidia GPUs on Linux over the years that I now refuse to buy anything Nvidia. AMD cards work flawlessly and get very long-term support.

Getting dumped to CLI is just a standard Arch experience in updating anything isn't it? You asked for it, you got it.

Nvidia was awful before the LLM craze, now they're awful AND evil.

Sounds like it's time to switch out the 1080ti for a 9070xt. Been almost 10 years, probably due for an upgrade.

I will miss having that CUDA compatibility on hand for matlab tinkering. I wonder if any translation layers are working yet?

That newer open source driver is still far behind but is progressing. Those graphics cards will have a great new life with modern kernels someday

He tried to warn y'all...

Those are the GPUs they were selling — and a whole lot of people were buying — until about five years ago. Not something you'd expect to suddenly be unsupported. I guess Nvidia must be going broke or something, they can't even afford to maintain their driver software any more.

Here is old man me trying to fogure out what PASCAL code there is in the linux codebase, and how NVIDIA gets to drop it.

The last time I updated my driver, BG3 didn't start anymore. So I really could not care less about driver updates for my 8 years old card.

But still, fuck nvidia.

Fuck, what do I do when they inevitably discontinue support for 20xx? Just cry and accept that I no longer have a computer, as every component costs as much as a house? D:

I wasted days of my life getting nVidia to work on Linux. Too much stress. Screw that. Better ways to spend time. If I can't game, that's OK too.

That's why I'm not on bleeding edge.

I can't believe they would do this to poor Borland. I guess I'll just need to use an AMD GPU for my Turbo Pascal fun.

"Brodie" mentioned. To be fair on the Arch side, they are clear the system could break with an update and you should always read the Arch news in case of manual intervention. You can't fault Archlinux for users not following the instructions. This is pretty much what Arch stands for.