Do we need Win95/98/Me support?

[Kagamin]

On Monday, 23 January 2012 at 05:30:48 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> can they? Talk about digging one's own grave. Heck, I wouldn't 
> be surprised if Vista and Win7 (and Win8) have not only caused 
> people to stick with XP, but also caused a lot of Win->Lin 
> converts - I'm getting closer and closer to that myself.

Well, bought new notebook recently and decided there's no 
difference between migrating to win7 and linux, tried ubuntu 11 
and linux mint 12, got too bad user experience with them. Linux 
causes high CPU load in idle mode - critical for notebooks - and 
that's in comparison with win7 loaded with OEM crapware. If you 
want vdpau (dxva for linux), you'll need nvidia driver, but its 
installation is poorly automated and I had to install it from 
nvidia site without automatic dependency resolution. Also hit one 
bug with Empathy IM software. So linux still seems not an option 
to me.