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They said software support, not hardware support. You can take a win 95 gui app and run it on windows 10 without issue. You can’t do the same on Linux.
by skinner927 3y ago
They said software support, not hardware support.
You can take a win 95 gui app and run it on windows 10 without issue. You can’t do the same on Linux.
- Rinzler89 3y agoPretty much. For the sake of nostalgia, I downloaded an Encarta 2000 ISO form Internet Archive, then spun up a Windows 98 VM to run it on but that VM had a lot of sound issues in Virtual Box, then I realized that Encarta would also run just fine installed on Windows 11 lol. This kind of backwards compatibility is not something I need on a daily basis but it's pretty neat that I can just run very old SW on my main OS without fiddling with VMs.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoIn context, it looks like they meant software updates, which is closer to what your calling hardware support.
- yndoendo 3y agoThis is not 100% true. Some legacy Windows software does not run on current Windows. Never got Slave Zero running on Windows XP or Windows 2000 after upgrading from Windows 98 & ME. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Zero
- gpm 3y agoFor many old windows games (and probably other apps) you'll actually have better luck running them on linux than a modern version of windows, thanks to wine/proton. E.g. see this user report: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1743cec/almost_seems_like_protonlinux_is_more_compatible/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1743cec/almost_s...