On 14.4.2022 16:38, Ben Beasley wrote:
I’m not talking about refurbished parts or new old stock. I’m talking about the brand-new SATA HDDs and SSDs, ATX power supplies, case fans, and other components that are backwards-compatible in systems pushing twenty years old (SATA) or older (PSUs, fans). Maybe I misunderstand, but your argument seems to be based on the idea that all replacement parts are custom designs tied to OEM support policies rather than commodities based on long-lived standards.
I'm talking about the entire hw range in the computer, every single component which can break not just the nuts and bolts on the computer case, or the PSU fans etc. ( It's interesting how you always avoid mentioning motherboard/GPU failures etc ).
As much as people may dislike it, the fact is those long lived standards have been replaced with a newer standards and not all replacement parts are backwards compatible like for example for a video device to work on a motherboard with a legacy BIOS, or in CSM mode, it needs a VGA option ROM to initialize the card.
Most video cards/IGPs for the last few years have dropped legacy BIOS support and only have UEFI ROMs ( which means they wont work on legacy bios or in CSM mode ) so we already are in an era when people are buying replacement parts which either needs to be old enough or legacy-friendly enough to work on that legacy hardware and as much as I dislike it, entering an era of vendor locked replacement parts ( Like AMD epyc CPU's getting locked to computer vendors. AMD epyc CPU's from Dell HW wont work on Lenovo HW and visa versa even if those are the exact same CPU models etc. )
Trying to support that legacy scenario where certain hw may or may not work is a nightmare for developers, support teams and Fedora since Fedora is not a distribution with a long term support, LTS distributions are better suited to support legacy hw then Fedora ever will.
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