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.

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.

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

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 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.

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:

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?

"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.

My son was going to switch to Linux this week. He has a GTX 1060.

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.

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. I just realised I have a pascal NVIDIA card on my laptop.

I'm running debian 13, wtf do I do?

EDIT : seems ok?

It was expected that the Linux Driver support will end with the GPU driver branch 580 as well, but NVIDIA extended this to branch 590 (it jumped straight from branch 580 to 590 and a single v580 Linux GPU driver exists). So, if you are boasting any of these GPUs, you won't be getting Game Ready drivers that offer day-one game support and optimizations for the upcoming titles. However, there should be no issue in using them for how long you wish. Still, users should keep an eye on the quarterly updates as these are essential.

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ends-support-for-gtx-900-and-gtx-10-series-in-linux-with-driver-branch-590/

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

I really dodged a bullet upgrading from my 1070Ti to the last AMD (9070XT or I misremembered?) for the black Friday. Lowest price of the generation just before RAM's price skyrocketed.

My SO is not so lucky…

Maybe we should use this card for under TV computers with Windows… sadly?

Pascal… Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… A long time