• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    29 days ago

    I’m good with it to be honest. One port that can do it all. Not proprietary.

    The longer we keep including legacy ports the longer they’ll stick around on peripheral devices

    Manufactures won’t change until forced.

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      29 days ago

      The big issue in my eyes is that they cut down on ports period. Yeah sure you can do it all. Here’s 2 ports for your trouble. There’s not a meaningful amount of them after. My current personal laptop has 2 USB a, one type c, HDMI and microsd. My work laptop is the same, but flipped usba and c. That’s fine for a lot of people, including myself. But then you look at other machines like the xps 13 Plus which has like 2. Or a MacBook air. Which also has 2 but at least you get a headphone jack.

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      29 days ago

      Almost everything I have has a USB A or a DE-9 plug. I don’t have a single peripheral that plugs into a USB C port. I don’t want to deal with dongles and I’m certainly not going to replace my perfectly good hardware.

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        29 days ago

        Eh, it’s been a standard for nearly a decade now. We’d still be on DVI with this attitude.

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      29 days ago

      But I already have peripheral devices with older connectors. This just forces me to buy dongles.

      Also, USB-C can only “do it all” on paper. In practice you have multiple sockets on any given device that support different subsets of the standard. If you’re lucky, the capabilities are printed right on the device or in the manual. If you’re unlucky you’ll have to figure it out yourself.

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        29 days ago

        But I already have peripheral devices with older connectors. This just forces me to buy dongles.

        I already have a computer with USB-C - legacy connectors on peripherals force me to buy dongles.

        Also, USB-C can only “do it all” on paper. In practice you have multiple sockets on any given device that support different subsets of the standard.

        It’s definitely not as good as it should’ve been, but as long as PC manufactures include as many standards as possible it should play well with whatever standard the peripherals are using.

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          29 days ago

          I already have a computer with USB-C - legacy connectors on peripherals force me to buy dongles.

          That’s why I want my computer to have both.

          It’s definitely not as good as it should’ve been, but as long as PC manufactures include as many standards as possible it should play well with whatever standard the peripherals are using.

          Until it doesn’t.