GTX 900 and 1000 official Driver support will drop before 2027

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This is more of a PSA than an “help request”.

NOTHING concrete about desktop-oriented official Drivers has been said yet, but other than needing a catchy title which doesn’t really lie aside,
I do not believe there will be a problem for most people if these same people either can’t or won’t upgrade.

Contrary to older GPUs, even the GTX 700 serie alone, the 900 and 1000 have very lucky to still get updates right now because today’s Drivers have great support for Wayland and can still run a lot of software (games and not) which are coming out in 2025.

I can not know what or how, in the far future (2029, in this context), having a “Driver Release 6xx from the end of 2026” will impact for Linux users, but I imagine that Desktop use, gaming, and maybe even using software for work won’t really be an issue.

As I’ve linked above

a GT 710 in a 2008-era-hardware PC is capable of running Nouveau Drivers with modern Wayland, and even if games are basically a no-go, it can still support a max of 1600x1200p*75hz and choppily play 720p YouTube videos.

It’s possible that other livingroom computers with GPUs as the GT 1030 will be able to still handle rendering the desktop at 1080p, and YouTube and Netflix, and whatever else with the Nouveau Drivers, but I am also certain enough that if one keeps the Legacy drivers for them (in the future, this has not yet happened) both YouTube and games up to 2026 will certainly work as they did before.

Legacy Drivers are, after all, a problem just and only if you want to run new stuff on old hardware (or want to combine old and new hardware, like those USB things to help backup VHS into .mov files).

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The support for older cards will likely to be dropped long before the end of 2026, TBH I was surprised 575.xx still had support for older cards.

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