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>so a motivated person could bring it back to life. The word "could" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. If my 20+ year old HW doesn't work on my latest Ubu
by FirmwareBurner 1y ago
>so a motivated person could bring it back to life.
The word "could" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. If my 20+ year old HW doesn't work on my latest Ubuntu, then the word "could" offers me no comfort.
>Not so in the Windows world.
I can install 20+ year old drivers on Windows 11 no problem without the original author needing to change anything or any motivated individual picking up the slack.
- BenjiWiebe 1y agoNot if they were only distributed through Windows update, or if it was that and the vendors long-gone website with custom flash for downloading the drivers, which archive.org didn't understand at the time...