On 26 November 2014 at 21:00, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 08:06:01PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d > wrote: >> So my computer died on me again last week and I had to buy new >> hardware. I was forced to update the software to run the new >> hardware... and it is painful. > > I have a high distrust of brand new *hardware*, because they inevitably > are gratuitously incompatible with my current software and require > new-fangled OSes bloated with features I never use. Because of this, I > only ever upgrade once every 5 years (if not longer). And when I do, > I'll be sure to spend plenty of time researching what hardware isn't > horribly broken or requires a specific version of a specific OS and > doesn't work with anything else. Vendor lock-in is evil. > >
If you look around, it isn't hard to find vendors who build laptops, desktops, servers, that either come shipped with a popular Linux distribution pre-installed, or are happy to test the configuration with Linux before shipping. Iain.
