Comment by distances
1 month 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.
Fair 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-su...
When I was googling to fix in the moment, I unfortunately did not find the news page.
If the expected way and the attitude is to just break user installs, then that's no better than Windows, perhaps even worse.
It's the Arch way. A beginner shouldn't be using Arch, Gentoo, NixOS or FreeBSD etc.
That's why there are myriad of distros.
So 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.
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