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Do you really want to run 20 year-old software? Games? Line of business applications? Other applications that still work for me and I have no reason to upgrade
by Karunamon 11y ago
Do you really want to run 20 year-old software?
Games? Line of business applications? Other applications that still work for me and I have no reason to upgrade?
Yes. Yes I do.
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Windows is literally the only OS out there right now that gives a toss about backwards compatibility.
Try compiling old code on a new linux - prepare to be stuck in dependency hell for hours as you try to find libraries that the distro maintainers ever-so-helpfully deleted outright or renamed with no pointer.
Apple shamelessly breaks things every time there's a point release to iOS or OSX. Killing this API, turning on that "security" feature which breaks your addons, etc etc.