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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed. What’s more surprising is the terrible way t…
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    My son was going to switch to Linux this week. He has a GTX 1060.

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      He just needs to stay on the 580 driver. Bazzite is handling that transparently and wont update you to the 590 driver if you have an unsupported GPU.

      Then next time round, buy an AMD or Intel GPU. They tend tp treat their customers better.

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        Nice, maybe bazzite it is then.

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      Nouveau might be good enough by now for most games that will run on a 1060, maybe worth a try.

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        AFAIK they still don’t support reclocking on anything older than Turing, meaning the GPU is stuck at the lowest clock frequency and therefore runs very slowly.

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        Am I the only one that can’t manage to make their Nvidia GTX 1060 run correctly on Linux? It has way worse performance than on Windows, even with the proprietary drivers.

        I’ve tried both Kubuntu and Linux Mint.

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      I guess he can’t say he uses arch btw

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        It’s not that bad as I understand it. If you are using arch with a Pascal GPU you can switch to the legacy proprietary branch. https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

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        He wants to use Mint. This is what is called planned obsolescence. I say what Linus Torvalds says.

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          I have a 1050 Ti running the 580 driver under Linux Mint; it works fine.

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          Might be able to use Mint Debian Edition.

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