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Linux has no telemetry, NOBODY knows if it works. There are more hardware combinations than there are stars in the galaxy. Maybe there is one anon on the run from the feds, which cannot post that his life or freedom depends on this driver.

That is the exact reason why closed source will exist forever. You pay, you live. You wait for free shit:
>You don't need that, nobody ever needed that. In reality we have no clue because we are hardcore anti-telemetry, but "we just know ;)"
This isn't a new phenomenon. Devuan and most other distros also removed nvidia drivers for cards still for sale at MediaSaturn in Germany.
Wanna know why? Because... "they're so old, nobody needs that driver. If we want them to work again, we can just make our own distro :) Don't even DARE to ask to get your (fixed) packages into the repo."

Deletion instead of bugfixing? A disaster in my eyes. And definitely not respecting freedom.

PS: I bet some russian forum user lately asked about that buggy driver. Or a chink. One of the "bad people", y'know. The "evil terrorists".