Comment 124 for bug 1431753

> Such work is not "necessary", as yours is really an unsupported corner
> case. If you insist on keeping the nvidia driver installed and disabled,
> against what we recommend, that is your problem.

And how was I supposed to know what you "recommend"?

Back in the days when I installed Ubuntu on my machine, there was a friendly interface somewhere like "Software & Updates" > "Additional Drivers" or something, where I could choose to install and use the NVidia drivers.
Then, when I saw they wouldn't work, I went to the same interface and chose not to use them. No warning appeared telling me that was "not recommended" or that I should uninstall the drivers.

Should I have read the whole Ubuntu documentation, like "Let's see if what I just did through the standard interface is not recommended, and if they recommend doing something else like uninstalling the driver".

It's not that I "insist" in keeping the driver installed and disabled. I did that ages ago and forgot about it. And I very much doubt it's that much of a "corner case". Right in this thread you have another user to whom the exact same thing happened.

And even if we are few, we got in our situation by just using what then was the user interface (I mean, we didn't tinkle and mess around with stuff), so if we got to a situation that was not supported, something was wrong in Ubuntu in the first place, and if we got into a situation which was then supported and then stopped being, then it's Ubuntu responsibility to make sure that automatic updates take that into account and keep things working.

And also, if a piece of software is designed in such a way that if you stop using it yoy have to uninstall it otherwise it may be harmful, it is badly designed.