Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers

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  • avis
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2022
    • 2246

    #21
    Originally posted by NotMine999 View Post

    You decided you had to inject your useless and usually argumentative opinion into this thread?
    The fact that this vapid ad hominen is still here and has gotten four upvotes is pretty indicative of the hateful, stupid Linux cult we have here. Not a single argument has been made for the fact that people with older hardware can no longer get support from Linux, something that has always been touted as its advantage over Windows.

    "Not so much any more", scream Linux fanatics. "We are happy about the frenetic pace of Linux development and want to see even more hardware deprecated."

    This discussion has been truly disgusting. I've also blacklisted you. Leave your insults for your grandma and mother. You cannot be a man with other men.

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    • User29
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2023
      • 248

      #22
      Originally posted by NotMine999 View Post

      You decided you had to inject your useless and usually argumentative opinion into this thread?
      I'm pretty sure that he and his quazillion troll accounts are all Michael to generate activity in the forum.

      there can't be any other reason behind this notorious dumb stubborn trolling.

      still, lots of people fall to it.
      Last edited by User29; 30 November 2024, 07:58 AM.

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      • User29
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2023
        • 248

        #23
        Originally posted by stormcrow View Post
        On the other extreme is Linux which will change structures practically at whim.
        And still this unreliable, always changing thingy called linux won and drives the whole world. How strange!

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        • avis
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2022
          • 2246

          #24
          Originally posted by User29 View Post

          And still this unreliable, always changing thingy called linux won and drives the whole world. How strange!
          What has it won? Servers? No one cares, no one sees them, they are basically network IO devices. You surely don't run Firefox or Chromium on them, do you?

          What else? Is there anything else? Wait, nothing??

          Android? A single fucking component being the Linux kernel and its 1) fixed version 2) version that offers stable API/ABI unlike the mainline kernel 3) replaceable (Google has done it for its Nest devices).

          So, not Android.

          Yeah, Linux has totally "won". Except where it matters, on the desktop, 99.99% of people don't even know it exists.

          Linux fanatics continue to prove they have zero logic, reasoning or intelligence.

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          • avis
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2022
            • 2246

            #25
            Speaking of "godlike" Open Source AMD drivers: follow this link and have some modesty. In 25 years of using NVIDIA I've not had as many GPU crashes as I've had with AMD drivers over the past 1.5 years. Whoever says Open Source GPU drivers in Linux are amazing/top-quality/near-perfect is lying through their teeth.

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            • mrg666
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2023
              • 1063

              #26
              Originally posted by avis View Post

              What has it won? Servers? No one cares, no one sees them, they are basically network IO devices. You surely don't run Firefox or Chromium on them, do you?

              What else? Is there anything else? Wait, nothing??

              Android? A single fucking component being the Linux kernel and its 1) fixed version 2) version that offers stable API/ABI unlike the mainline kernel 3) replaceable (Google has done it for its Nest devices).

              So, not Android.

              Yeah, Linux has totally "won". Except where it matters, on the desktop, 99.99% of people don't even know it exists.

              Linux fanatics continue to prove they have zero logic, reasoning or intelligence.
              According to Statcounter.com:

              Operating System Market Share Worldwide - October 2024
              Android 44.69%
              Windows 26.81%
              iOS 18.47%
              OS X 5.66%
              Unknown 1.77%
              Linux 1.58%


              Let me read this for you. ~65 % of the world internet traffic is on mobile devices. Android is the most popular OS. Android runs on Linux kernel which is by the way the topic in this thread.

              On thing you can read here is that desktop is dead. Linux kernel is the dominant software that is used in those operating systems that run the internet and used to access internet. Windows has no significance left on the internet and in the world.

              You are talking about 99.99% of 28% that represent Windows users. And I am a Windows user too, at work and sometimes at home. I hate it, hate it, hate it. There is no other thing that wasted my time and annoyed me so much in the world. Absolute junk and utter crap is that Windows.

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              • toves
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2021
                • 125

                #27
                Originally posted by matthewtrescott View Post
                GPIB subsystem will be nice. Maybe I’ll be able to use my old oscope with Sigrok
                I seen to remember HPIB was the proprietary predecessor of GPIB back when HP made printers that you could own rather than vice versa.
                I recall, very early on, tangling with a pen plotter that was interfaced through a HPIB card in a Unix workstation. Vaguely have an idea the HP9000/700 series workstations used HPIB for the keyboard and mouse.

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                • Etherman
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2017
                  • 294

                  #28
                  Originally posted by avis View Post

                  What has it won? Servers? No one cares, no one sees them, they are basically network IO devices. You surely don't run Firefox or Chromium on them, do you?
                  I'm pretty sure they won't break Chrome or Firefox with a kernel update.

                  And even if they would, distros wouldn't accept that.

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                  • Ladis
                    Senior Member
                    • Feb 2017
                    • 407

                    #29
                    Originally posted by mrg666 View Post

                    Let me read this for you. ~65 % of the world internet traffic is on mobile devices. Android is the most popular OS. Android runs on Linux kernel which is by the way the topic in this thread.
                    ​Can I access the Linux kernel? Google keeps delaying the official virtualization, so I have to use Termux, which is just something like Cygwin in Windows.

                    Originally posted by mrg666 View Post
                    On thing you can read here is that desktop is dead. Linux kernel is the dominant software that is used in those operating systems that run the internet and used to access internet. Windows has no significance left on the internet and in the world.

                    That's not contradictory. Those servers don't use Linux desktop, only the kernel. Similarly, many use Windows kernel for the hypervisor and Linux virtual machines are inside it.

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                    • back2未來
                      Phoronix Member
                      • Oct 2023
                      • 78

                      #30
                      Originally posted by avis View Post
                      [...] older hardware can no longer get support from Linux, something that has always been touted as its advantage over Windows. [...]
                      [ Yes, that's the "repair instead of dump" mentality, that's been attractive for&to Linux-like developers, but where to draw the line towards older hardware (and even unmaintained drivers, but still means compilable?), 1 generation, ~30yrs? ]

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