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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux (hackaday.com)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's 2025, can we not display a warning message in pacman? Or letting it switch from nvidia-590 to nvidia-legacy?

I'm not an arch user, I admit, I don't like footguns.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    TIL Arch is a footgun. 🤡 cope. 😉

    But yeah, I agree, if package maintainers were astute there, a warning would've probably been good somehow. Not sure pacman supports pre-install warnings. Maybe? It does support warning about installing a renamed/moved package. But the naming would've had to be really weird for everyone involved if the warning would be clear in that case.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I admit, all distros are a different degree of footguns, I'm saying this as a nix user. lol

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Just as with anything you do in life, take action with a healthy side of precaution.

    This is a life lesson. I've learned to be careful around the oven. I've also learned to be careful running volatile commands. 😅

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