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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by prmoustache on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:57AM (#50393085)
> I was informed that my kernel had been updated, my old graphics driver uninstalled, but the installation of the new graphics driver had not proceeded as expected. Mind you the updater reported everything as a-ok.

It may have been ok anyway. Without further details we can't say. Most drivers are included with mainline kernels so your "old graphic driver" may have been an out of distribution gfx driver (nvidia?) that doesn't support new version of kernel for example or said driver may have been replaced by something else with a different name.

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Re:Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue decl... by com2kid on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:07PM (#50399139)
The driver binaries for the old kernel got cleaned up and new ones never got downloaded. I'd have been stuck on the CLI, which wouldn't have been the end of the world, I'd just have to pull the drivers down myself.

But not an experience for non-technical friends.

I am using Nvidia so I have to be very careful. I regularly run into issues with system vs flatpak driver versions getting out of sync and losing acceleration in most of my apps. Thankfully it has happened so many times now I know how to resolve it quickly.

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