Hi, On 10/19/20 6:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > The issue is that while 'moore's' law was no longer doubling every 18months it was still working and tasks had to be rewritten to work with more cores/threads/etc. As that happened the software's need for more CPU power has increased to the point were a 10+ year computer isn't very useful for 'modern' software (browser and various applications). Instead if you want to have something work on a 2012 system well.. just use software from 2012. It is still available. Sure you can install Linux on that 15 year old computer but if you have to tell the user well you can't actually use a browser, an editor or half the things you can do on your cheapest smart-phone.. what use is that computer? My daughter actually took a 12+ years old (one of the first 64 bit core 2 duo models) laptop (Dell Latitude E6400) with her to school for a project last week and happily ran a browser (latest firefox) and libreoffice on it without issues. Sure I've probably upgraded the RAM a bit at some point (I don't remember when I did that, so a long time ago) and I dropped in a SSD something like 5 years ago I guess. But with those 2 upgrades it still is a fine machine for a lot of things. And the PC in the living room used for netflix, disney+ and primevideo is another core 2 duo (one of the later gens) models happily doing what we ask of it; and my wife's home-office machine is another ... I guess those machines are more or less the cut-off point and slower machines are not worth keeping around. But that means that there still are a ton of BIOS machines worth keeping around. Note that even most sandy bridge machines do not support UEFI and those machines are still very capable. It really just is way too early / too soon to cut of BIOS booting support. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ 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
