I genuinely don't understand the decision to intentionally break a working driver without any prior notice or communication to users.
My GT 710 is old hardware, yes — but it was working. It serves its purpose: display output, nothing more. There was no expectation of new features, no demand for updates. It simply worked, quietly, as it had for years. What happened here is that a system which was functioning correctly was broken by a deliberate upstream decision — and I only discovered this after the fact, when things had already stopped working. No warning, no migration path, no heads-up of any kind. Just a broken system and a trail of breadcrumbs to follow backward. Yes, Nouveau works. I know. But that's not the point — the official driver is simply gone, removed without ceremony, and users who depended on it were given no say and no notice. This would not happen on Windows. An old driver with no updates stays functional indefinitely. You don't pull the rug out from under users who are relying on hardware that, by all accounts, still does exactly what it was designed to do. The hardware isn't the problem. The communication — or complete lack of it — is. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2110338 Title: Nvidia 470/470-server fails to build on kernel 6.17 HWE To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-470/+bug/2110338/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
