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Re:4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a sma... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:32PM (#14600452)
New desktops still have CD/DVD burners, don't they?
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Re:4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a sma... by gogopuppygogo on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:18AM (#14601889)
If they do still include this as a standard feature it's really a waste. Just more trash in the world. Everything can run off a USB device and really should.

Don't we have enough garbage already?

They should be optional upgrades only at this point in their life cycle.

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Re:4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a sma... by ashark on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:30AM (#14604093)
Plus external CD+DVD burners from major brand names are now dirt cheap and run entirely off the USB port with no extra power adapter needed (!!!) so they're convenient and inexpensive to add if you really need one, with the bonus that you can move them between machines as desired.
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