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Re:It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 by throw0101c on Friday May 29, 2026 @05:22PM (#48329463)
Linux hasn't even bothered continuing supporting processors in the same family, dropping support for 386:

* https://www.zdnet.com/article/good-bye-386-linux-to-drop-sup...

and more recently, 486:

* https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-devs-start...

and here we are expecting support for completely different CPU classes. :)

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Re:It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 by choo-t on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:28PM (#48330146)
Supporting very old hardwares and supporting less than a decade old softwares are two very different things.
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