Future proofing mostly. Blueray drives should be backwards compatible with DVD.
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: ken <geb...@mousecar.com> Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 04:54 Subject: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray To: CentOS mailing list <cen...@centos.org>, Debian Users < debian-user@lists.debian.org> One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?