Linux slowly dropping support for older hardware

[Genava55]

There is controversy following messages from some Linux kernel developers encouraging the abandonment of support for older hardware.

 

[ShadowOfHassen]

That is interesting and kinda concerning. AI does have some benefits things like this make it a lot worse. At some point people need to stop and see if it is really producing more good than harm, when you see cases like this it kinda makes it seem that the harms exceed the potential benefits. (That and the constant bots that spam our forums as well)

I don't blame the devs they're just trying to figure out how to cope with the flood of issues and bug reports that they have to deal with while still getting the word they are supposed to finish.

[Asher]

I don't think it is going to affect new devices that much. Ai said: General Desktop Users: Most modern users (using USB, PCIe, WiFi 5/6, and Ethernet chips from the last 15 years) will not notice any difference. So, I don't think it will be that much of a problem

[phosit]

I don't want to argue in favour of removing support for devices, but...

Most arguments are silly (or in Lundukes language: hilarious)

"There are issues reported for drivers with no known issues." Yes that's why the issues are reported...

"The year 2002. Very very recent in my opinion." When the hardware support is now removed and the already released kernels get supported for maybe 5 years (I think that's how that works), It will be supported for 30 years. I wouldn't call that "Very very recent".

"The drivers haven't do be updated in years and years and years" When there is no one maintaining it there is software rot.

"Wasn't the point of using AI to make development more efficient‽" AI is used to find bugs and to write code. When the kernel developers wouldn't use AI to find bugs someone else would. When they wouldn't use AI do write code - yes - they would be less efficient.

"Back in the days every week we said that something became supported by Linux" Maybe you could do the same thing now.