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.
JBG