On 02/22/2018 02:44 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The largest manufacturer of CD-Rs and DVDs and also the inventor of CD-R media, Taiyo Yuden, stopped making them. Same for TDK.
Come on. You are deliberately misreading what I said, don't you? I did never claim you can no longer buy optical media, you can. But the market has declined significantly. Do you really think the largest manufacturers would stop making them if the market wasn't declining? What's coming next? Are you going to link a web store which has some VHS recorders listed to prove that there is still a huge market for video cassettes?
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).
Yes. And 20 years ago, that number of laptops with a drive would have been significantly larger. You are providing my point.
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.
DVD images can usually copied to a USB flash drive to be used as installation media. I mean, are you seriously downloading an image, burn it to a DVD to install openSUSE instead of using a USB flash drive which costs less than a 10-pack of DVDs? PS: I think this thread is getting off-topic and I am therefore going to stop answering. Adrian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org