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I guess the better question would be why they're even bothering any more when they only support a few ancient Thinkpads and a couple of decade old Apple laptops
by jlarocco 11y ago
I guess the better question would be why they're even bothering any more when they only support a few ancient Thinkpads and a couple of decade old Apple laptops.
For better or worse, I think they've lost this battle.
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- rekado 11y agoI'm still using one of these "ancient" Thinkpads (an X200S). It's good enough for my purposes (audio recording, live audio performances, hacking on free software, Emacs, browsing the web). I don't often find myself wishing for a more powerful machine. When I do, I run computations on remote servers.
- jlarocco 11y agoI didn't say the hardware wasn't useful anymore. But it seems like a losing proposition to run and promote a project that's only ever going to run on a handful of ancient laptops. The FAQ explicitly says it's not going to run on any new Intel or AMD processors, which essentially makes it useless for modern desktop, laptop, and server systems. As others have pointed out, it's almost not even possible to buy hardware that's supported.
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