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"This means it supports the AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake processors. Microsoft, in stark comparison, won't fully support Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on either hig
by smcl 10y ago
"This means it supports the AMD Ryzen and Intel Kaby Lake processors. Microsoft, in stark comparison, won't fully support Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on either high-end CPU"
This is a weird statement - comparing the very latest kernel release on Linux to older windows versions isn't particularly meaningful. If it was 3.2 or 3.4 then sure, but 4.10 is roughly 5 days old...
- vetinari 10y agoLinux long-term supported releases, including Ubuntu, have so-called Hardware Enablement, where support for newer hardware is backported to the LTS version during its lifetime.
- dragontamer 10y agoIs Ubuntu deciding to backport Ryzen / Kaby Lake to the 2009 LTS release of 10.4 (Kernel Version 2.6.32.21) Because that's how old Windows 7 is. If we want to compare apples to apples.
- justinjlynn 10y agoWindows 7 received patches during its lifetime as well, if you want to really get technical.
- hedora 10y agoI think the implication is that Microsoft still hasn't released a reasonable successor to windows 7 yet (because of telemetry, etc). I'll buy that. However, even if you grant me that, the statement still kind of falls apart, since you could argue that there is no ubuntu with feature parity with their last gnome based release (even the author of the article runs mint...)
- type0 10y agoYou could allays switch the kernel and see how it goes, otherwise you're comparing oranges with bananas.
- csense 10y agoI thought that for x86, backwards compatibility was the name of the game. Why do these new processors require OS support?
- dom0 10y agoOn a purely technical level they don't per se, however platform features like power management, graphics, ISA extensions etc. needs OS support. The latter part is pretty much just used as leverage by Microsoft and Intel (which also stopped driver support IIRC) to force people into Windows 10.