Tell that to HP. My laserjet 1012 doesn't have any drivers for 7, yet it works if I force it as a 3055.

Manufacturers should be required by law to provide drivers for at least 5-10 years. All the perfectly good and working hardware that gets recycled or trashed is mind boggling...

Seriously? What are they gonna do, put towers on every street corner?

"even most Linux distros do not explicitly encourage the use of dual-booting"

It's part of the setup when you install linux

And PC makers never sold power cords that melt (HP), batteries that explode (Dell), Laptops with GPUs that pop from their solder (all with some nVidia), and eeePCs with cheap battery packs that die within a year (ASUS).

Real easy to bash on one company when they all do it.

Because "quite a few" is more than one ?

at 7x10 feet, if you can fit a few of them in your bedroom, you probably live in a basement

And I'll bet the less they earn the better they are...

Those same congested links that weren't so congested if using a VPN?

In other words, by paying, the artificial congestion was removed...

That's why ISPs shouldn't be TV providers too...

And that's why the digital dash in my Grand Marquis was a VFD...

Doing it in software, sure. Making it in hardware will add components...

"and more prone to failure than an LCD display"

at -30C your LCD might not react properly until it has warmed up.

As for analog gauges being more prone too failure, I wouldn't be so sure about that

Adds to complexity for nothing. much easier (and reliable) to use an analog meter if one is needed

That's the reason why even if I own a really nice Multimeter, I still use an old analog one from time to time (because of the too-fast response time of Digital)

Domination was a favorite of mine when we had our clan...

5 was 2000/XP, Vista was 6. But seriously, I'm wondering why they're skipping 9