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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I personally don't have the heart to say any of the legacy support stuff is completely useless. I mean, yeah, Windows has support for floppy drives (through standard USB mass storage), but you know what? I can image old floppies through it. If Windows recognises floppy drives and gives it drive letter A, that's not that much of bloat really, just an entry in a list or something.

And also most Linux distributions also have ancient-ass legacy stuff, though admittedly usually you need to specifically install it and maybe even hack a bit to get it to work again. ...why yes, I am going to do physical terminal stuff one day, 1980s style, and I'll be very mad if I need to hack serial getty support in the hard way!

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

To be fair, you occasionally need to "hack" Linux a bit to get modern stuff working, too