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bee_rideryesterday at 8:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Although, eventually NVIDIA will drop support for your card and you’ll have an annoying situation. This happened for Pascal on Arch Linux a while ago. The 10X0 series are pretty old at this point, but then Linux shines on older systems too.


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notnullorvoidyesterday at 8:42 PM

You can still use the old drivers they work fine. This also isn't unique to Linux, Nvidia's latest Windows drivers also don't support 10 series cards anymore.

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kouteiheikayesterday at 8:48 PM

NVidia supports their GPUs for a really long time (unlike AMD, which paradoxically drops official support really fast; e.g. see their ROCm support). Anyway, by the time NVidia drops support for their current newer GPUs there's a high chance that NVK[1] will be ready for general use.

[1] -- https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/nvk.html