And yet even here I can easily afford to get a used SSE2-capable netbook for just under 70 USD. The place where I come from is not regarded as the third world country, but neither it is a developed county, especially when it comes down to IT and it's produce. Where in turn the question of finance arises. Is the lack of possibility that forces them to seemingly resent progress? 'Users' are welcome, but in a practical sense disposable.īut should we regard a part of the community as a non-existent, simply because they stay silent?Īnd furthermore, one can easily be a wiki contributor or even a small-scale AUR maintainer without even having a forum account.Īlas, the problem risen should be regarded as a natural case of aggravation within the community, where a part of it for one or another reason stays utterly conservative.Īnd this is where the reasons behind their motivation should be questioned: is it just a case of personal choice? Or perhaps it Like any open source project Arch is primarily built on (and sustained by) those who contribute to it. If this 'hidden' users don't use the forums or the mailing lists, the likelihood that their staying or leaving will affect Arch is close to nil. Maybe we could have a news article that promotes its use? We could use this issue to gather more pkgstats data.
If there's some hidden active 20% of the community that use machines that don't support SSE2 but who don't use the forums, I wouldn't want them to wake up one day and find their distribution dead to them.
But I'd be reluctant to drop support for a subset of users without good data (pkgstats) about how many would be affected.
Right, if Arch decides to stop supporting SSE2 to keep the reward:effort ratio high, fine. Even then I would not draw any conclusions regarding Arch's user-base from that.įortunately, the decision isn't being made based on any concern for the size of (or lack of) the userbase. The mailing list has more response (not necessarily more users) simply because of the format.
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The proportion of those who actually keep track of all posts (either through 'new' or through manual browsing) is extremely small (as in, nonexistent).ĭoubt you can draw conclusions that way. The proportion of Arch users who use the forums is fairly small.