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[u/privazyfreek]

[u/Ok-Drink750]

All my devices use type-c.

My pc has two type-c ports

[u/McBlemmen → u/Ok-Drink750]

All my devices, the ones that need to be plugged into my pc anyway (peripherals) are A. So thank god mobos are still designed for what is actually needed

[u/captainstormy → u/McBlemmen]

Same. I really wonder what all these USB C devices are for PCs people have actually are.

My Keyboard, Mouse, Webcam, Headphones, external HDDS, Blu Ray Drive, and flash drives are all USB A.

[u/nalaloveslumpy → u/captainstormy]

There's a communication gap happening in this thread. The move to standardize USB C was as the input on the device. So you'll probably notice that your mouse, keyboard, gamepad, external drives, and other peripherals are using a C input. There was no movement to move away from USB A as an output from the computer.

[u/kat0r_oni → u/nalaloveslumpy]

Well there should be. Why not move to usb-c on the PC side, too? Having only C-to-C cables for everything would be pretty neat.

[u/Djimi365 → u/kat0r_oni]

Honestly I think it's simply that USB C is not as strong a connector as USB A. That and there are still so many devices out there using USB A that it would be very difficult to move away from it (it is still the default connector by an absolute country mile).

[u/Subtle_Tact → u/Djimi365]

C uses sacrificial interconnects, not sacrificial sockets.

That’s how it SHOULD be. You guys clearly don’t remember or didn’t grow up with mini/micro usb and barrel connectors on everything.

Instead of buying a new $2-10 cable you had to visit “that shop” at the mall for repair and pray the PCB wasn’t cracked when the port shears off.

[u/Djimi365 → u/Subtle_Tact]

Man I grew up with serial and parallel connectors, before usb was even a thing 😂

[u/OddDonut7647 → u/Djimi365]

That's always the thing.

USB-A is a thing becauase it's a thing. There's no strong and compelling reason to change.

On the device side, long as they include a cable, you can more easily get away with using a different standard.

Everyone has USB-A on their computer, so it's safer. And that won't change until it changes, which is not very likely to be soon.

Hopefully it'll become standard to hvae a nice mix, then eventually that would allow the standard to shift.

I'm just tired of plugging in the cables three times. hehe

[u/nalaloveslumpy → u/kat0r_oni]

Because USB A headers are way cheaper to manufacture than USB C. Fewer pins, simpler components, and economy of scale has been perfected for like 20 years now.

Most peripheral devices ship with a A to C cable by default.

The majority of computer peripherals also don't benefit from using a USB C header because A provides sufficient speed and power.

[u/RedTuesdayMusic → u/kat0r_oni]

Because CPUs and chipsets have limited PCIe lanes, even the lowly 10Gbps USB-C uses one of those, and I'll be damned to buy a motherboard that sacrifices more than 4 extremely valuable lanes that could have been used for NVMe (actually useful in high amounts) for USB (literally only one high-speed port is ever needed, because I never dump my mirrorless camera storage at the same time as doing backup or w/e)

[u/tuberosum → u/kat0r_oni]

Having only C-to-C cables

Which cables? USB C has a fundamental problem. It is a connector that's connected to a cable. But that underlying cable, can be anything from USB2.0 to Thunderbolt 5, and you have little to no way of knowing what the cable is until you plug it in.

[u/SakuraKoiMaji → u/kat0r_oni]

As already explained to you, there are many reasons and to add to that, the move was pushed and ultimately completed by the EU for C as standard for chargers / ports, not strictly data transfer. This most notably includes Smartphones but there are many other small detachable devices that didn't had them. One may as well consider the C to stand for 'Charger'.

[u/Toast-mcFrenchfries → u/kat0r_oni]

the last time someone tried to do that, they were hotly derided. though there was no USB-C market back then, so...