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>anything beneath the programs are a means not an end. This. Absolute backwards compatibility is why Windows (particularly Win32) and x86 continue to dominate
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>anything beneath the programs are a means not an end.
This.
Absolute backwards compatibility is why Windows (particularly Win32) and x86 continue to dominate the desktop market. Users want to run their software and get stuff done, and they aren't taking "your software is too old" for an answer.
- justsomehnguy 2y agoYep. I finally abandoned CorelPHOTO-PAINT 3.0 only when I moved to x64 Vista in 2008.
- M95D 2y agoWhat did you use instead?
- justsomehnguy 2y agoSettled on Paint.NET. I honestly tried to use GIMP multiple times but it's always felt.. unnatural. https://www.getpaint.net/ https://www.getpaint.net/ NB: but IrfanView is still my goto picture viewer.
- account42 2y agoUnfortunately no OS so far cares about backwards compatibility for users. Everyone thinks it is ok to force whatever new UI and workflows their monkeys dreamed up on the userbase.
- badsectoracula 2y agoMy desktop (Linux running Window Maker) looks and feels more or less the same today as it did in 1997 - years before i even learned about it :-P. If anything, bugs aside, all changes since then have been for the best IMO. Of course that's mainly possible because of how modular the Linux desktop stack is.