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Anyone who says things like this, should be the ones that have to support the legacy code. They should be sentenced to a 15+ year old computer and to explain t
by mustache_kimono 5y ago
Anyone who says things like this, should be the ones that have to support the legacy code. They should be sentenced to a 15+ year old computer and to explain to their colleagues how we just can't do anything new, because we need to use GCC 4.7 to build the world because <legacy CPU>, now used by 20 non-paying users, won't work with anything newer.
Fedora is only one, relatively fast moving distro, which gives you their software for free, and which didn't even make this decision, but who could blame them if they did, in their position?
- probably_wrong 5y ago> They should be sentenced to a 15+ year old computer I bought my computer about 15 years ago, with what at the time was a pretty beefy setup. I still use it for my everyday work because, as it turns out, you don't need much more than 4Gb of RAM to surf the internet. Due to buggy UEFI support, I cannot reinstall Windows 10 on that PC. If Linux stopped supporting Bios, I'd have to throw it away. But more importantly, this computer has better performance than the computers of many of my relatives in South America. I wish every developer in the first world had to explain at least once to their nieces that no, Roblox will not work on their Chinese Android tablet with 1Gb of RAM.
- mustache_kimono 5y agoBut Linux isn't ending support of BIOS, Fedora considered it but won't yet. If Arch Linux decided not to support BIOS, we'd say, "Well they are a bleeding edge distro", but guess what, "Shhhh... so is Fedora." Old hardware is great. Expecting people to support it forever for free is folly. This is exactly why people pay IBM/RedHat for support.
- Narishma 5y agoWindows 10 doesn't require UEFI. None of my computers have it and they all boot Windows 10 just fine.