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minus-squaremaxwells_daemon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down19·4 天前Users move on from Windows because of old hardware compatibility, pick an easy to use distro, like Fedora. Fedora drops old hardware compatibility… It’s their second attempt in under a month. Red Hat needs to sit the fuck down.
minus-squaredata1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·4 天前As much as I resonate with the issues, in this case, this isn’t what they’re doing at all. This drops support only for UEFI on the MBR partition scheme typically used by a BIOS setup, which I honestly didn’t even know was possible. This ends support for no hardware - almost all distro installations on UEFI have defaulted to GPT partition tables for a long time.
minus-squareAxum@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-23 天前I’d say look in a mirror and sit down, as you entirely don’t understand this proposal. This is not something that impacts old hardware.
minus-squarekylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 天前Rhel and Fedora are separate entities and work on their own, but they do influence each other.
Users move on from Windows because of old hardware compatibility, pick an easy to use distro, like Fedora. Fedora drops old hardware compatibility…
It’s their second attempt in under a month. Red Hat needs to sit the fuck down.
As much as I resonate with the issues, in this case, this isn’t what they’re doing at all.
This drops support only for UEFI on the MBR partition scheme typically used by a BIOS setup, which I honestly didn’t even know was possible.
This ends support for no hardware - almost all distro installations on UEFI have defaulted to GPT partition tables for a long time.
I’d say look in a mirror and sit down, as you entirely don’t understand this proposal. This is not something that impacts old hardware.
Rhel and Fedora are separate entities and work on their own, but they do influence each other.