Hi all,
I'm planning to do some changings to finally remove MS-DOS from the doc and >make some unification regarding the different Windows versions.
A patch is attached.
--- a/en/preparing/needed-info.xml
+++ b/en/preparing/needed-info.xml
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ On Windows systems, the IDs for a device can be found in the Windows device
 manager on the tab <quote>details</quote>, where the vendor ID is prefixed with VEN_
 and the product ID is prefixed with DEV_.
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-On Windows 7 systems, you have to select the property <quote>Hardware IDs</quote> in the
+On Windows 7/10 systems, you have to select the property <quote>Hardware IDs</quote> in the
 device manager's details tab to actually see the IDs, as they are not  displayed by default.
Hello!
On Thu, 2023-08-03 at 22:03 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
-On Windows 7 systems, you have to select the property <quote>Hardware IDs</quote> in the
+On Windows 7/10 systems, you have to select the property <quote>Hardware IDs</quote> in the
device manager's details tab to actually see the IDs, as they are not
displayed by default.
I would suggest just using the term "Windows" here so you don't have to keep >updating it every time a new major release of Windows has been released.
Am 3. August 2023 22:49:29 MESZ schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>:
Hello!
On Thu, 2023-08-03 at 22:03 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
Â
-On Windows 7 systems, you have to select the property <quote>Hardware IDs</quote> in the
+On Windows 7/10 systems, you have to select the property <quote>Hardware IDs</quote> in the
 device manager's details tab to actually see the IDs, as they are not  displayed by default.
I would suggest just using the term "Windows" here so you don't have to keep
updating it every time a new major release of Windows has been released.
I changed that into "On newer Windows systems, ..."
OK, that's better. Btw, while it's okay to remove references to MS-DOS, please make sure that the
semantics of a sentence is not altered. For example, it's still valid to call DOS partition labels
by their original name as by contrast newer hardware uses GPT partition labels, for example. Calling
the old DOS partioning scheme "Windows partitioning" would not be correct.
On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 12:15:35PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
For example, it's still valid to call DOS partition labels
by their original name as by contrast newer hardware uses GPT partition labels, for example. Calling
the old DOS partioning scheme "Windows partitioning" would not be correct.
Don't most partition tools call it MBR vs GPT partition tables? I suppose some of them still call it DOS partitions.
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