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

NVIDIA has been "gradually dropping support for older videocards," notes Hackaday, "with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed.""What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Arch Linux currently a prime example.?"On these systems, updating the OS with a Pascal, Maxwell or similarly unsupported GPU will result in the new driver failing to load and thus the user getting kicked back to the CLI to try and sort things back