[OT] unbelievable: #ifdef _OTHER_LIB_H

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 26 November 2014 at 21:00, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 08:06:01PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> So my computer died on me again last week and I had to buy new
>> hardware. I was forced to update the software to run the new
>> hardware... and it is painful.
>
> I have a high distrust of brand new *hardware*, because they inevitably
> are gratuitously incompatible with my current software and require
> new-fangled OSes bloated with features I never use. Because of this, I
> only ever upgrade once every 5 years (if not longer). And when I do,
> I'll be sure to spend plenty of time researching what hardware isn't
> horribly broken or requires a specific version of a specific OS and
> doesn't work with anything else. Vendor lock-in is evil.
>
>

If you look around, it isn't hard to find vendors who build laptops,
desktops, servers, that either come shipped with a popular Linux
distribution pre-installed, or are happy to test the configuration
with Linux before shipping.

Iain.