Bug#880122: Bug#939798: floppy support in d-i
On 11/4/19 12:06 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 11:27:07PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> And I just saw the "argument". The argument was "It's 2018". That's not
>> an argument.
>
> the longer form of the argument is: it's 2018 and except for 100 people
> on this planet, noone is using floppies anymore.
Yes, and it's 2018 and except for a handful of people, no one is browsing
the internet on a PC anymore. I don't see how this is an argument.
> "cognitive strain" is another argument. 90% of the people installing a
> computer today have no idea what a floppy (disk) is. (for those who
> don't know, it's the icon for saving a file.)
I don't really see the problem here. And I would like to see a source
for that 90% claim. I don't think anyone who is able to install Debian
using debian-installer doesn't know what a floppy is. Anyone who is capable
of creating a bootable USB flash drive will absolutely know what a floppy
is.
I really have the impression that some people are trying with all force
to smash out support for older architectures and hardware despite people
still being there to maintain it. We have one of the most successful
Bountysource campaigns for the m68k port [1] due to the still large
interest of the community to work with the port. And yet we constantly
have this argument about deprecating stuff "because it is too old",
it's exhausting really.
Debian is certainly not the distribution for Linux beginners so there is
really no reason to pretend that such changes make any difference
in user-friendlyness.
If you really want to make a change that imposes a major roadblock
for most users installing it would be including hardware firmware by
default. Because that's it what you see people on internet forums complain
about when installing Debian. I have never seen anyone claim "Hey, it
says floppy here but I don't even have a floppy drive on my PC."
Adrian
> [1] https://www.bountysource.com/issues/80706251-m68k-convert-the-backend-to-mode_cc-so-it-can-be-kept-in-future-releases
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