On Monday 07 of September 2015 13:44:27 C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
I always detested the Microsoftisch way of commerce that implicated that if you do not get the latest of hardware you are out of using our Microsoft-ware. Reason for me to abandon that company since windows 3.1.1
Really, this is getting ridiculous. Could we, please, stop confusing the things by calling 12 year old machines "latest of hardware" and similar? Consumer grade 64-bit CPU's are with us since 2003, maybe even longer. In the world of home user PC's, 12 years is ages. I'm far from denying there are still 32-bit machines around and running. But calling 64-bit systems in general "shiny new" or "latest of hardware" in order to draw a picture that 64-bit consumer hardware is some novelty only the wealthy of us can afford, that is a blatant manipulation and twisting the reality. Back in 2005, you could say "latest of hardware". But now we have 2015 and only the oldest consumer PC's are 32-bit. x86_64 is not a novelty, it's not "latest of hardware" (most of them, of course) or "shiny new", it's the vast majority. Pretending that dropping i586 means "if you do not get the latest of hardware you are out" is an enormous exaggeration at best.
Hope that list-members who find them self in a similar situation will speak up. Assume that a broader discussion should start as the factory list is most probably not read by every SUSE enthusiast. Just try to find out how big the group of 586 owners is.
This is a problem. People who insist on 32-bit (for various reason) will speak up. But that won't tell you how big the group is (compared to the silent majority). Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org