The efficiency cores need to be disabled anyway if you do any virtualization, so they are a waste of space on the die that could be used by something doing actual work. At best, they artificially inflate the marketing specs.

At this point we should just go back to forums and message boards.

ignore the clueless marketing.

The HDR on my TCL set is so bad I had to turn it off.

The big vendors (RedHat, Microsoft) are in good shape, PVE is progressing rapidly. The little popup HCI folks are hit or miss. I wouldn't weight broadcom support very heavily into a decision. It's not VMware support anymore.

Moving VMs between hypervisors is pretty trivial at this point, and with the right tooling can be done really quickly. Automation and 3rd party integrations will be the bulk of the LOE, but the sooner you start the sooner you finish.

Annoy the influencers, go ahead, I dare you. Now where's my popcorn...

FUD like "Because we're dropping support" might work in the enterprise, but doesn't work at all on consumers. Make the OS desirable, remove the petty annoyances, and stop blocking installs on people's existing machines, then you might get some adoption.

they should have supported windows 10 hardware.

And it only yields an extra 2TB.

Seems like the play here is to rile up pitchfork yielding enviro mongers and point them at the funding source for evil sources of energy?
juvenile.

I appreciate them finally reserving something, but they could have picked a shorter option.

Feeling vindicated now.

- latency much?
- space walk to replace a failed drive?
- repeated damage from orbital debris?
- and we'd eventual have to rescue Matt Damon

No doubt someone there would buy it.