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He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

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Re: Not the USB kind

What has word size got to do with it?

Old hardware is predominantly 32-bit and distros are phasing out 32-bit support. This, coupled with drivers for non-USB floppy drives which are now being orphaned means that one day you'll only be able to use an out-of-date distro on older hardware.

VMs won't help with reading a real floppy drive on real hardware.

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