On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 21:14 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Solomon Peachy writes: > > > Even putting that aside, for the past several years CSM/BIOS has > > been > > slowly bitrotting due to a lack of real testing, as the last few > > Windows > > releases have mandated use of UEFI for preinstalled systems, plus > > the > > EOLing of Windows 7 and (especially) XP. > > That's only because it's Microsoft. Note that, even though Microsoft is pushing for UEFI on new systems in the OEM version of Windows, they still support booting in legacy BIOS mode in the latest Windows 10 version and they even support a 32-bit version of Windows 10, which Fedora no longer does, so you can install and run it on even older hardware than Fedora. Even the latest May 2020 update of Windows 10 has a 32-bit retail version that is directly downloadable from their website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO The only Windows that no longer supports 32-bit systems is Windows Server. So the obsolescence of Windows 7 and XP is irrelevant. I'm by no means a Microsoft fan, but these are facts. Fedora is pushing for hardware obsolescence faster than Microsoft in this regard. :( To be completely fair, I must say that Fedora runs on first generation AMD64 hardware, while the 64-bit version of Windows no longer does, but the 32-bit Windows 10 still works on them, and on even earlier CPUs that are 32-bit only, which Fedora no longer supports. Best regards, Nikolay _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
