The decade old NVIDIA GPUs have now been dropped in the latest Linux drivers as well.

NVIDIA Drops Maxwell and Pascal GPU Series in the Latest Linux Driver 590.44.01

NVIDIA's Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs continued to get latest Game Ready drivers till October 2025, but have finally transitioned to just quarterly security updates. This was specifically for Windows, but NVIDIA has reportedly dropped GPU driver support for the Maxwell and Pascal GPUs for Linux as well. According to the latest beta Linux Driver 590.44.01 , both the GTX 900 and GTX 10 series are now excluded from the supported GPU list.

While NVIDIA didn't yet release any Game Ready 590 driver for Windows, it has rolled out one for Linux. With the exclusion of these decade old GPUs from getting frequent driver updates,

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