09-20-2021, 08:49 AM
(09-20-2021, 06:20 AM)ryo Wrote: Honestly, I think the old/slow hardware is actually a good thing.
Every time we make hardware higher end, developers are getting lazy and crank up the requirements along with it, so you'll be forced to buy the newer model too whether you like it or not.
Remember the days when you had to have 128 MB of RAM to play the most hardware exhausting 3D video game ever?
Now all of the sudden we need an 8 GB of RAM PC just to be able to open a few tabs in Google Chrome.
Meanwhile if the specs remain low, app developers will have no other choice than to make lightweight, native apps without ads, *anal*ytics, Javascript/Electron, a 8k MP4 file forced-autoplaying in the background, or some other unnecessary bloat attached to it.
Even if it means to get more people on board, would be nice to get more Linux users and people in places where human rights are heavily abused like North Korea, China, Hong Kong, Canada, New Zealand, or Australia.
I think the alternative to having developers support low end devices is that they just won't do it. They don't want to limit their apps/programs to what can be run on an outdated CPU with low RAM, they would rather just have it run however they want it to run which means that we don't get that app support anyway. Which is basically what we have right now.