> this basically proves that Linux has the best legacy device support
Floppies still work just fine on Windows 10, you know.
Floppies still work just fine on Windows 10, you know.
My Yamaha PSR-700 series workstation keyboard uses floppies as its primary memory, and still works fine.
Its replacement, Yamaha PSR-SX700, is coming out in October 2019 at MSRP of $1,999, and is not fundamentally different. (And if I use the 90s version to control Korg Monlogue / Deepmind / etc to get the sounds, then the marginal value of the new instrument goes way down).
So floppies it is.
The fact is, people who want floppy drives in their PCs can still install them. And RS232 is alive and well on Raspberry Pi.
On the other hand, the mobile world is suffering a lot from the "removing ports is a good thing" stupidity. That's how you get cell phones without a headphone jack, and laptops without a (micro)SD card slot and no USB-A ports (even when the space clearly permits them).
The ports that aren't used disappear gradually without the need to be "brave" (e.g. DVD bays from laptops).