For desktop-class hardware, the parts that are most likely to fail around the decade mark are storage drives, power supplies, and perhaps fans. All of these are fully standardized and in plentiful supply; there is no reason that first-party hardware vendor support should be required to keep old desktop systems in service.
We need to actually see some real hard data involving those fail
parts from the manufactures themselves and or official repair
shops since there are plethora of "refurbished" hw out there
ranging from "cosmetic imperfections"
to outright "motherboard replacements". I've experience and
seen plethora of spectacular computer failures as part of my
dayjob and in my own hw.
Dropping support for old hardware in Fedora should always be based on the costs and benefits, not on a rigid planned lifecycle.
Well here's the thing this is one of these reoccurring long
threaded discussion ( which means they are stuck in status quo )
that happen every once in a while, back in the day it used to be
Alan Cox that was advocating for lifetimes support of steam
powered devices, today the dialog involves deprecating legacy
bios.
It should be quite apparent prevent the hw support lifecycle dialog from ever occurring again we need a rigid planned supported hw lifecycle.
That can be 10 years project wide or simply something that each
WG tailors for their own target audience ( shorter, longer that's
for them to decide since they should be doing all the work
involving their "products" and their maintenance ) but as I said
we need a rigid planned supported hw lifecycle, leaving this
things are one more time just means that we will have this dialog
again further down the line.
JBG
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