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On 2022-04-06 07:16, Neal Gompa wrote:
Moreover, it puts the burden on people to figure out if their hardware can boot and install Fedora when we clearly haven't reached a critical mass yet for doing so, like we did when we finally removed the i686 kernel build.
All points by Neal were valid, and I second his post.
Also, let me state that many machines who'd be UEFI capable on paper are *not*: in my experience, many early UEFI machines (2009 up to 2014) have a very buggy implementation, to the point of being unusable and/or a terrible experience.
I run Fedora on a wide variety of machines, including old hardware that is plenty capable spec-wise, yet not feasible for UEFI boot.
If we consider Fedora Server, it gets even worse. I have a couple of Dual-Socket Nehalem-era Xeon boards in service. Both run Fedora. One is not UEFI capable at all, the other is very buggy when using it. My newer servers are not as powerful as these two, although they are UEFI capable.
This is to say that age alone does not tell the whole story. This change would leave behind a LOT of serviceable hardware even by today's standards.
Ironically, Fedora is one of the distributions out there that allows me to extract the most out of older hardware. It would be a terrible loss to have to move to a different one, but it's hard to reason purchasing new hardware - especially right now, with pandemic-related supply issues still ongoing - to keep up with this change.
Kind regards, Alberto