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Windows has become a garbage pile of spyware lately, but even Linux can't really compare to the insane level of backwards compatibility Windows offers.

• anticorporate 2y ago
  > even Linux can't really compare to the insane level of backwards compatibility Windows offers. My experience is quite the opposite. I still play the Windows Entertainment Pack version of Tetris. In Linux, thanks to Wine, it just works. In Windows 10, I'm told to contact the publisher for a new version.
  • lmm 2y ago
    Emulators tend to be better for compatibility than live systems. Did you try using Wine on windows? And if you take a similar-vintage Linux program, you may well find it runs more easily under SFU or WSL on Windows than on a current version of Linux.
• pmarreck 2y ago
  NixOS can. Because literally every piece of software in the Nix repo includes all dependencies (including things like build dependencies, not just runtime dependencies) that existed at the time it was built, all the way down to the metal basically
  • kragen 2y ago
    well, all the way down to the kernel, not the metal
    • pmarreck 2y ago
      fair, but you can pick your kernel and define your kernel extensions I believe, so there's that
      • kragen 2y ago
        yeah!