Re: Dropping fallback mode in 3.8

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 21 November 2012 19:53, Raphaël Jacquot <sxpert sxpert org> wrote:

> The decision is all nice and well. however this will force people that don't have the latest and greatest accelerated hardware to switch to something else.
> most PCs that are more that 2 years old are probably out of the game.

this is incorrect. hardware acceleration is available, using free
software drivers, on hardware that is 5 years old (945-class hardware,
release by Intel in 2005/2006). writing modern software for old and
underpowered hardware is not really an option. if you want to use
really old hardware there are better projects that can benefit from
contributions.

> now the REAL question is :
> Is the Gnome community NO BETTER than Microsoft at forcing Hardware Upgrades ?

let's not resort to out of place hyperboles, please.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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