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That's exactly how it's supposed to work: Arch expects you to check the notes on their news section always before you update. The NVIDIA driver issue and soluti
by distances 9mo ago
That's exactly how it's supposed to work: Arch expects you to check the notes on their news section always before you update. The NVIDIA driver issue and solution was posted on Dec 20th.
I'm not saying I'm reading these regularly, just that yes it's the expected way.
- pxoe 9mo agoIf the expected way and the attitude is to just break user installs, then that's no better than Windows, perhaps even worse.
- abhinavk 9mo agoIt's the Arch way. A beginner shouldn't be using Arch, Gentoo, NixOS or FreeBSD etc. That's why there are myriad of distros.
- pxoe 9mo agoSo it wouldn't be incorrect to refer to Arch and Arch based distros as 'well, if you want to have fun with a broken system, otherwise avoid', just so it could be mentioned in a succinct way when talking about what distros one could try.
- distances 9mo agoNo, I don't think that's a fair way to put it. People regularly report having quite old Arch installs without stability issues. And people also regularly advice Linux newcomers not to pick Arch. If you check their news section, it's a reasonable number of notes, 13 for last year. I think it's fair to say it seems to work well if you are willing to follow their procedure and already know what you're doing. https://archlinux.org/news/ https://archlinux.org/news/
- cbruns 9mo agoFair enough, and now I do. It is still the most recent news item and the instructions for the fix are clear: https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/ https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-su... When I was googling to fix in the moment, I unfortunately did not find the news page.