Linus Torvalds sees “zero real reason for anybody to waste one second” on them.

I didn’t know whether to mark this NSFW or not but it’s time to buy a new computer if you haven’t upgraded in multiple decades.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 hours ago

    The issue is that older kernel versions will lose support and stop getting security updates eventually. I don’t know if there is enough of a community around old CPUs for fixes to be backported by the community.

    • spv@lemmy.spv.sh
      101·
      4 hours ago

      i love backwards compatibility as much as the next guy, but at some point, if there isn’t enough of a community to backport fixes, there probably aren’t many using them. if a tree falls in the forest, you get the idea.

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21·
      4 hours ago

      You wouldn’t want to keep such old equipment connected to a network anyway. That’s only inviting trouble down the line.