On 7/2/2013 9:28 AM, Majken Connor wrote:
Sure, but it's relevant to the higher level question - "how to continue to
support users who are currently on XP?" It's an interesting idea, what
would be the right place to discuss it? A new thread here or elsewhere?
I don't think Linux is at all relevant here. I cannot imagine desktop
Linux playing any role in our strategy to support XP users. There are
simply too many XP users for whom Linux is not a useful option.
The question of how we support XP users better is wide open and we'd all
love more input there. IMO, the question of moving XP users to Linux is
not.
- A
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Kyle Huey <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2013-06-26 10:37 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote:
XP is a massive platform both for our current user base and for the
developing world where we see millions of new web users coming online
every month. We won't be dropping support in the near future, nor do
we have a set date by which we would do so.
I'd just like to throw in here that for a lot of the people still on XP,
desktop Linux is at least theoretically a more suitable replacement OS
than
more-recent Windows (because of the generally smaller hardware
requirements). Therefore, if things get to the point where XP support is
holding us back, I think we would be well-served to sink some effort into
making sure that *is* a viable option for this chunk of our user base.
(What that would consist of, I don't know. Possibly just throwing money
at $DISTRO_OF_CHOICE.)
This is waaaaaay out of scope of the current discussion.
- Kyle
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