For sure, 3 on one side and 2 on the other minimum.

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

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.

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. The transition period might be a bit painful, but worth it.

have ARM CPUs which means they aren’t PCs

Why on earth would architecture have anything to do with it?

only support UEFI booting so aren’t PC compatible.

Oh wow, I don’t think anyone using the term “PC” this century was referring to “IBM PC-Compatible” like it’s 1981. The only vestages of that is that the term excludes Mac even today.

For a lot of things yes.

However I do not want to use a browser developed by the US gov tyvm

Yeah I’m in a 5 person group chat, 2 Pixels, a OnePlus, and 2 iPhones. RCS works great for us so far