Bullshit. Linux drops stuff at developers whims, and there is nothing to encourage them not to. Case in point - GPU acceleration when they dropped DRI1 (sometime around 2011 IIRC) I had many laptops that suddenly ran Windows 7 much better then they ran Linux, because the X.Org idiots decided that nope, those features aren't important. They can all just use LLVMPipe instead.
That, and Dell is at least honest about saying what they will and will not support. Oh, and they don't have their machines refuse to boot if you change the WIFI card like HP does....
That's the exact reason I stopped buying Android devices (I bought a Droid X over an iPhone years ago, and came to regret it (kept it about 2.5 years, replaced it with an iPhone 5 when they first came out, and my ASUS tablet that I bought two years ago got replaced with a Windows Tablet back in November). My ex-girlfriend bounced around all sorts of Android devices over the last about six or seven years that all failed to improve my opinion of the manufacturers to make me want to even try another android device. She (after we broke up and I stopped doing support for her) later switched to an iPhone and was astonished at it actually recieving updates and such.
Drivers are the biggest thing. Many Vista era GPUs are not supported in Windows 10. That then leads to extra CPU load since Windows 10 will software render the entire desktop rather then having a non-accelerated fallback mode.
Second issue I noticed is thanks to Windows Defender being "always on" it creates a very massive CPU load on older CPUs (Core 2 and older), and the OS plus updates are so slow that the user experience is massively slow. Plus there is the risk of finding a system that does not properly support (or have enabled) all of the features required to run W10.
Well, not quite the extreme you listed, but there are a lot of GPUs that got dropped by ATI/AMD between each version of Windows since XP (Example - I had a "Vista-ready" Toshiba with an XPress 200m that that had no Windows 7 driver), and Intel (Intel i8xx GPUs have acceleration in XP only) and Nvidia have quite a few too (Nvidia moved between Windows 8 and 10 quite a few things to legacy that the mainstream driver (including the one that Windows update will force install if you were using the driver nvidia says to use (my case, a Quadro 880m in a Precision M4500))
Had the exact opposite happen with my Dell (Precision M4500) - Dell only supports Windows 7 on there, and Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, force delivers/installs a newer NVidia driver then supports the Quadro 880m that's in the laptop. That wasn't fun to try and fix either, thanks to the "YOU MUST INSTALL UPDATES" policy that Microsoft has enforced.
Well, I am one of those people....I own two cars currently, a 99 Mustang and an 88 Mustang (should have kept a truck instead of two Mustangs....), and I think the 99 is the next car I am getting rid of. No plans to replace it with a car that would be new enough to have Bluetooth either. I have found that I rather dislike newer vehicles (so I should buy a spare engine for my 88 next...got a trans in the basement for if that goes).
I'll be honest - 90% (and that is based off of 10 group chats that I can find in my phone history for the past 4 years) I would have been just as happy without. Since I work in a location that has very poor cell reception (that was non-existant when I started here nine years ago, then barely appeared about the time NSA moved in across the street...we joked at the next company all hands meeting that our new off-site backup provider was nice enough to put an office by us) basic SMS works quite well for me - I can get messages, but anyone trying to send me more then that knows not to send it to my phone, that it'll have to wait until I get back home.
I still use AfterStep and WindowMaker on some of my old laptops (Pentium II-vintage). And when I first saw the Unity interface it made me think of GNUStep setup.
It does create (which seems to be the whole idea of systemd) incompatibilities with other systems. Suddenly, I now have to care if my script is running on Systemd/Linux or if it is running on any other Unix system (and yes, I have scripts that currently work perfectly without modification on IRIX, Solaris, and Linux).
Seriously. This is why when I purchased a new MBP this year I bought a 2012 model, the last ones to have a "Pro" feeling to them. The cost of buying that plus 16GB (of Apple blessed RAM, no less) and an SSD (when I get around to it) will be far less then the cost of buying one of these new, handicapped models with that ship with worse specs.
Maybe I just run boring setups, but I haven't had any recent issues on the systems I've tried.
First off, I tend to stay away from fringe distros like Mint. Most of my systems currently run Ubuntu (except for servers), migrated from Fedora/Cent. Laptop1 (Inspiron) has Intel HD Graphics, laptop 2 (Precision) has a Quadro FX 880m, desktops run various cards (GTX 770 in my main desktop, R9 370X in one desktop, Radeon HD 7870 in another, GTX 580 in a third). I have a couple of really old Logitech Keyboards that I've been using for the past eleven years or so, plus a Sun Type V. No issues with any of them (okay, some of the keys on the Logitech don't work in Linux, but they don't work in newer then WinXP either). Mouse-wise I have a few different Microsoft Mice around (Microsoft "Standard Wireless Optical Mouse" it says on the bottom). On board sound for all machines.
Depends on which dialog you are presented with - I've seen a couple different dialogs come up, and with focus stealing it's pretty easy to hit the "Enter" or "Space" keys without ever really seeing the dialog box.
No, Apple just decides that the machine is too old to upgrade. In there defense, outside of the G5, most machines got quite a few OS upgrades (the MBP 1,1 that shipped with OS X 10.4 went to 10.6, then the Core 2 era ones all go to at least Lion, some even still supported.
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Bullshit. Linux drops stuff at developers whims, and there is nothing to encourage them not to. Case in point - GPU acceleration when they dropped DRI1 (sometime around 2011 IIRC) I had many laptops that suddenly ran Windows 7 much better then they ran Linux, because the X.Org idiots decided that nope, those features aren't important. They can all just use LLVMPipe instead.
Why is it Samsung's problem? Did they promise you that you would be able to upgrade your system when you bought it?
That's simply not true. I have seen OS X 10.11 installed on the 2009 MacBook.
That, and Dell is at least honest about saying what they will and will not support. Oh, and they don't have their machines refuse to boot if you change the WIFI card like HP does....
Except the device in question isn't certified for W10 - it's people doing it themselves.
Well, that's half the problem, people managing devices that they aren't qualified to use.
That's the exact reason I stopped buying Android devices (I bought a Droid X over an iPhone years ago, and came to regret it (kept it about 2.5 years, replaced it with an iPhone 5 when they first came out, and my ASUS tablet that I bought two years ago got replaced with a Windows Tablet back in November). My ex-girlfriend bounced around all sorts of Android devices over the last about six or seven years that all failed to improve my opinion of the manufacturers to make me want to even try another android device. She (after we broke up and I stopped doing support for her) later switched to an iPhone and was astonished at it actually recieving updates and such.
Drivers are the biggest thing. Many Vista era GPUs are not supported in Windows 10. That then leads to extra CPU load since Windows 10 will software render the entire desktop rather then having a non-accelerated fallback mode.
Second issue I noticed is thanks to Windows Defender being "always on" it creates a very massive CPU load on older CPUs (Core 2 and older), and the OS plus updates are so slow that the user experience is massively slow. Plus there is the risk of finding a system that does not properly support (or have enabled) all of the features required to run W10.
Well, not quite the extreme you listed, but there are a lot of GPUs that got dropped by ATI/AMD between each version of Windows since XP (Example - I had a "Vista-ready" Toshiba with an XPress 200m that that had no Windows 7 driver), and Intel (Intel i8xx GPUs have acceleration in XP only) and Nvidia have quite a few too (Nvidia moved between Windows 8 and 10 quite a few things to legacy that the mainstream driver (including the one that Windows update will force install if you were using the driver nvidia says to use (my case, a Quadro 880m in a Precision M4500))
Had the exact opposite happen with my Dell (Precision M4500) - Dell only supports Windows 7 on there, and Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, force delivers/installs a newer NVidia driver then supports the Quadro 880m that's in the laptop. That wasn't fun to try and fix either, thanks to the "YOU MUST INSTALL UPDATES" policy that Microsoft has enforced.
Well, I am one of those people....I own two cars currently, a 99 Mustang and an 88 Mustang (should have kept a truck instead of two Mustangs....), and I think the 99 is the next car I am getting rid of. No plans to replace it with a car that would be new enough to have Bluetooth either. I have found that I rather dislike newer vehicles (so I should buy a spare engine for my 88 next...got a trans in the basement for if that goes).
I'll be honest - 90% (and that is based off of 10 group chats that I can find in my phone history for the past 4 years) I would have been just as happy without. Since I work in a location that has very poor cell reception (that was non-existant when I started here nine years ago, then barely appeared about the time NSA moved in across the street...we joked at the next company all hands meeting that our new off-site backup provider was nice enough to put an office by us) basic SMS works quite well for me - I can get messages, but anyone trying to send me more then that knows not to send it to my phone, that it'll have to wait until I get back home.
Hmmm...I just checked IRIX 6.5.29, plus Solaris 10 and 11- it says 1024, but also defines POSIX_PATH_MAX to 255
I still use AfterStep and WindowMaker on some of my old laptops (Pentium II-vintage). And when I first saw the Unity interface it made me think of GNUStep setup.
It does create (which seems to be the whole idea of systemd) incompatibilities with other systems. Suddenly, I now have to care if my script is running on Systemd/Linux or if it is running on any other Unix system (and yes, I have scripts that currently work perfectly without modification on IRIX, Solaris, and Linux).
And what's wrong with OS X? Heaven forbid that an interface be consistent and not change every other year...
Seriously. This is why when I purchased a new MBP this year I bought a 2012 model, the last ones to have a "Pro" feeling to them. The cost of buying that plus 16GB (of Apple blessed RAM, no less) and an SSD (when I get around to it) will be far less then the cost of buying one of these new, handicapped models with that ship with worse specs.
Not anymore - the new ones have fallen to the chicklet line.
Or maybe the render farms that were running on MIPS based IRIX systems?
As of right now, no it's not. Give it a couple more years and it likely will be, since regulations are popping up.
Maybe I just run boring setups, but I haven't had any recent issues on the systems I've tried.
First off, I tend to stay away from fringe distros like Mint. Most of my systems currently run Ubuntu (except for servers), migrated from Fedora/Cent. Laptop1 (Inspiron) has Intel HD Graphics, laptop 2 (Precision) has a Quadro FX 880m, desktops run various cards (GTX 770 in my main desktop, R9 370X in one desktop, Radeon HD 7870 in another, GTX 580 in a third). I have a couple of really old Logitech Keyboards that I've been using for the past eleven years or so, plus a Sun Type V. No issues with any of them (okay, some of the keys on the Logitech don't work in Linux, but they don't work in newer then WinXP either). Mouse-wise I have a few different Microsoft Mice around (Microsoft "Standard Wireless Optical Mouse" it says on the bottom). On board sound for all machines.
Once you have the command prompt (or powershell), couldn't you just modify the user account that you intend to use anyway?
Depends on which dialog you are presented with - I've seen a couple different dialogs come up, and with focus stealing it's pretty easy to hit the "Enter" or "Space" keys without ever really seeing the dialog box.
No, Apple just decides that the machine is too old to upgrade. In there defense, outside of the G5, most machines got quite a few OS upgrades (the MBP 1,1 that shipped with OS X 10.4 went to 10.6, then the Core 2 era ones all go to at least Lion, some even still supported.
A lot of us do not have options in that matter.