Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2022, 21:26:02 CET schrieb Per Jessen:
Michael Strc3b6der wrote:
On 12/5/22 17:47, Larry Len Rainey wrote:
I woke up this morning with this question?
If Tumbleweed is the latest Kernel and Software Versions, why are we worried about hardware that is over 8 years old?
So here's another question for you:
Why does the recent Linux kernel still support pretty old hardware?
And now the key question:
Why should Tumbleweed cut off supporting old hardware if nobody benefits from this move?
I'm opposed to this change.
+1
+1. I seriously believe we (openSUSE) should *not* drop an architecture(- level) that is (still) supported by the kernel. Also: From what I've gathered from all this discussion it'll be mainly floating point number crunching that benefits from -v2 or higher, unless I missed something. ...the average desktop system spends 99.99999999% of its cpu cycles by simply waiting for user input. Which applications ship with Leap today that will actually and *NOTICEABLY* benefit from -v2 or higher could just be offered for -v2/3 by means of an additional, rather small, repo... Seriously, is there a list of applications that would show a noticeable difference? I'd guess long running stuff like blender or ffmpeg, perhaps? Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org Jabber (XMPP): lemmy@tuxonline.tech Matrix: @mathias:eregion.de IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102