News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on After protest, Lenovo adds Linux compatibility to Yoga 900 and 900S laptops. Parent comment

Re:After protest, Lenovo adds Linux compatibility to Yoga 90... by pmontra on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:01PM (#12911973)
Yes, I noticed that too. I wonder if the authors of these articles care about what they are writing.

Kaby Lake works with any OS which has drivers for them. MS didn't plan to make any for Windows < 10 and wasn't asking OEMs to develop them for those Windowses.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:After protest, Lenovo adds Linux compatibility to Yoga 90... by kbenson on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:16PM (#12912196)
I see, so the first statement was made in a context of only the windows ecosystem. It's exceptionally poor wording, since they aren't actually talking about "Locking specific hardware to Windows" but instead "ensuring specific hardware doesn't get support on older version of windows". Windows 10 and windows 8 and prior are all still "Windows".
[ Parent | on HN ]