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On 2022-04-06 07:16, Neal Gompa wrote:
Moreover, it puts the burden on people to figure out if their hardware
can boot and install Fedora when we clearly haven't reached a critical
mass yet for doing so, like we did when we finally removed the i686
kernel build.
All points by Neal were valid, and I second his post.
Also, let me state that many machines who'd be UEFI capable on paper are
*not*: in my experience, many early UEFI machines (2009 up to 2014) have
a very buggy implementation, to the point of being unusable and/or a
terrible experience.
I run Fedora on a wide variety of machines, including old hardware that
is plenty capable spec-wise, yet not feasible for UEFI boot.
If we consider Fedora Server, it gets even worse. I have a couple of
Dual-Socket Nehalem-era Xeon boards in service. Both run Fedora. One is
not UEFI capable at all, the other is very buggy when using it. My newer
servers are not as powerful as these two, although they are UEFI capable.
This is to say that age alone does not tell the whole story. This change
would leave behind a LOT of serviceable hardware even by today's standards.
Ironically, Fedora is one of the distributions out there that allows me
to extract the most out of older hardware. It would be a terrible loss
to have to move to a different one, but it's hard to reason purchasing
new hardware - especially right now, with pandemic-related supply issues
still ongoing - to keep up with this change.
Kind regards,
Alberto
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