On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 8:40 PM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-05-04 at 22:32 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > "Support" isn't binary. I have a 10-year old MSI motherboard and get a > > slew of ACPI errors every time I boot. They don't seem to affect > > anything but they're there. I presume that a more modern mobo would > > have fewer of these, if any. > > I have to wonder just how many things (motherboards, peripherals, > software, etc) were knowingly released full of bugs with either the > thought that they'd get around to fixing them with an update, or just > didn't give a damn. We've probably all had something that never worked > right, and was never going to. > My experience with early stuff released with bugs is that it was released after they got it to work on one system. Many issues were related to timing so stuff that worked initially would fail when moved to a newer, faster, machine. People were devising workarounds for buggy hardware. Some of those may have been adopted by distros, but are now being lost. -- George N. White III
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