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crazysquirrel
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New hardware specs?

#1 Post by crazysquirrel »

USB - C is going to replace not only regular USB but HDMI as well.

Aside from the physical adapters for USB, how will MX (and others) deal with those of us who do not have USB-C equipment?

Will MX support normal USB for the next decade?

Even TV sets are supposed to migrate to USB-C.
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#2 Post by figueroa »

Don't worry about it. USB support, like parallel and serial port support, will be around till all that hardware has long been dead, and buried or recycled.
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#3 Post by j2mcgreg »

It's simple. The corporate world will demand backward compatibility and linux will ride on that demand's coattails.
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#4 Post by crazysquirrel »

Corp wants to sell NEW stuff not et you use OLD stuff. M$ is one of the problems with that.

You cant use win10 on certain old systems....
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Support for older USB is in the kernel, and isn't going away for a long, long, long time.
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#6 Post by JayM »

Stevo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:49 pm Support for older USB is in the kernel, and isn't going away for a long, long, long time.
It still supports floppy drives. When was the last time you bought a new computer that came with one of those?
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