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

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

It makes me wonder why the package still auto updates if it detects you're using the driver that would be removed, surely it could do some checks first?

Would be vastly preferable to it just breaking the system.