Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 07:33:12PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Again, you're projecting from an anecdote of one.  My anecdote of one is
> that the vast majority of system in my company (around 400 employees
> IIRC) don't have an optical drive.  I'm actually not sure if any of the
> desktops have one (since every once in a while someone will come around

None of the IT-department-provided systems at my last two employers came 
with optical drives, and even if requested it would have been fulfilled 
in the form of a portable USB drive sent along separately.

"Enterprises" tend to refresh their equipment every three years or so, 
and it's been nearly two full refresh cycles since CD drives were 
considered standard equipment for end-user systems. It's been even 
longer for servers; after all, why waste the money and physical space on 
an optical drive that will only be used once?

Granted, there's a long tail of older equipment that was 
shipped/equipped with a CD drive, but let's be honest, you'd have to go 
back more than a decade to find something that can't also boot off a USB 
stick -- placing one firmly in the territory where performance, 
operating costs, and especially reliability of that old equipment is of 
significant concern.

(FWIW, I have Fedora installed on two such systems, and yes, their 
 reliability has taken a significant nosedive..)

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
High Springs, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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