Once upon a time, John M. Harris Jr <joh...@splentity.com> said: > As explained earlier in this thread, DVD drives are still a standard offering > on prebuilt systems. In fact, I just checked, and they're a standard offering > on ALL of the current line Dell workstations which are RHEL certified.
The number of Dell workstations sold from a "RHEL certified" list is miniscule compared to the number of PC-class computers sold. It's possible that some "RHEL certified" requirement includes an optical drive (I have no idea, since I didn't even know there was a "RHEL certified" Dell, and I buy a lot of Dells). Also, what one vendor does for one particular class of workstation is far from representative of all prebuilt systems. I just checked my local Best Buy's website - of the desktop computer models available in the store, only about 1/3 of them have an optical drive. Only two out of sixty notebooks have an optical drive. I think that's a lot more representative of where the market is going. My home computer still has an optical drive, only because the drive still works 10 years after I bought it (or at least it did last time I used it, which IIRC was maybe early this year). If I try to use the drive and it doesn't work, I won't replace it. However, last time I tried to burn something (a couple of years ago?), all the blank media on my shelf was no longer any good, so I just gave someone an old thumb drive (cheaper than buying more media). -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
