On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 17:26, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-06-30 at 16:23 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > > W dniu 30.06.2020 o 15:34, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson pisze: > > > Given Hans proposal [1] introduced systemd/grub2/Gnome upstream > > > changes it beg the question if now would not be the time to stop > > > supporting booting in legacy bios mode and move to uefi only > > > supported boot which has been available on any common intel based x86 > > > platform since atleast 2005. > > > > Will you provide replacement for laptop I bought in 2013? Still has some > > use, runs Fedora 31 just fine. BIOS mode only. > > > > My other PC at home is BIOS mode only too. Sure, it is FX-6300 so quite > > old but with some hard drives and 16GB of ram it has a use. > > I'm also still using a laptop from 2010: > > > https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/sony-vaio-z-series-vpc-z11z9e-b-13-1in-laptop > > it has outlived one 'replacement' so far, and my 3.5 year old XPS 13 > (9360 gen) recently stopped booting so unless I can fix that, it will > have outlived two... > > it has no UEFI support either. > > HP EliteBook 8570p here. A perfectly capable machine, great for coding, allowing up to 16GB RAM. I wouldn't just wave off any machine from around 2010-2012, because many are quite sturdy and still useful. The other thing is virtualization as many have mentioned. It defaults to BIOS, because it Just Works. I think the idea to get rid of the legacy "burden" of BIOS is a good one in the long-term, but I don't think the ecosystem is ready for it yet :(.
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