Le lundi 19 octobre 2020 à 12:47 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : > It is only after Moore's law 'broke' after 2003 stopped seeing > doubling cpu speeds every 18 months that trying to keep hardware > useful longer than 5 years has been possible.
The real turning point is when Microsoft missed its 64bit conversion. Previously, you could always add a couple of years of useful lifetime to a computer just by adding some memory (because memory is one of the key parameters manufacturers skimp on). But, once most of the market got stuck in 4GiB land due to Windows limitations, you could suddenly add a decade or so of lifetime just by using the fact Linux was 64 bit to grossly outscale the default Windows-oriented memory setup. Now the gap is slowly shrinking now that Windows is 64bit and manufacturers learn to use memory again. But it will be some time before the 64bit-ed Linux installed base get outperformed enough to be retired Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
