On 2018-02-22 13:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 02/22/2018 01:31 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
They do, actually.
The fact was shown to me the other day, in this mail list.
I asked to drop the DVD install image and switch to an USB install image, bigger. Not going to happen, the DVD is still used. I stand corrected.
The largest manufacturer of CD-Rs and DVDs and also the inventor of CD-R media, Taiyo Yuden, stopped making them. Same for TDK.
https://www.pccomponentes.com/cd-dvd
Other manufacturers are following suit. These companies wouldn't stop making media if people were still buying them. Also, more and more computers you buy these days don't even ship with an optical drive anymore.
I had a quick look for laptops without a drive, yesterday, and many had one. https://www.pccomponentes.com/portatiles/grabadora-blu-ray/grabadora-cd-dvd-... 324 laptops have a drive (of 928 total).
So, while there are certainly people still using optical media, they are becoming a minority as the market is declining.
Well, ask openSUSE. The official position seems to be that the DVD image will continue being made. The proposal to drop it and increase the size of the image was refused. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)