• GreyHouseElf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And yet somehow, it’s also complete garbage. I’ve tried installing win10 while having 11 drives connected to my system. Guess what, the win10 installer can’t count past 10, so instead of installing to drive 11 like it should have, it installed to drive 1. Because no one would ever use more than 10 drives in their system I guess. Drive 1 was my current OS and got nuked hard, even my backups couldn’t get it to work again.

    • duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Yeah Windows compatibility is both amazingly impressive and complete garbage.

      Need to run something from 1992? Sure! No problem!

      Need to run something from 2021? Sorry, no compatibility for that old API.

            • riskable@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              If you’re trying to get ancient software to work I think “user friendliness” is the least of your concerns. Especially compared to the alternative (Windows) where the answer is just, “No: That’s not going to work no matter what you do.”

  • Engywuck@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago
    • “Can you run on this 20 y/o piece of hardware?”
    • Linux: “hold my beer!”
    • deadcream@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Only if you use 15 years old distribution. Linux actually drops support of older hardware faster than Windows, it just doesn’t happen consistently. Old drivers are maintained by volunteers so if someone wants to spend their free time on a driver for 25 years old hardware then it will work. But the moment that single developer disappears or stops caring then this driver is booted from the kernel fast. Supporting old hardware isn’t the goal of Linux unless someone make it their goal (and core developers don’t care either way as long as it’s not their job).

  • AlexTheLost@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Gonna be honest, this isn’t my experience, a lot of stuff just doesn’t work on Windows anymore

    I can get those same programs to work fairly easily on linux though using Wine/Proton

    • Slartibartfast@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      If you do echo "3 6 * p" | dc in a terminal it’ll give you the result of 3x6, but the dc part of that is software that was written probably between 1969 and 1971.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Had this exact scenario with an old flatbed scanner. No win10 drivers and it never had mac drivers. Ran without issue in up to date Mint.

      • Aras@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Actually once recently I had problems because the wifi driver (b43) for the Dell Latitude D505 (2004) wasn’t in the live Boot environment (cause un-free).

    • tubbadu@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Can I install this 20yo software?

      user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

      SUDO Can I install this 20yo software?

      Is already installed.

    • le_saucisson_masque@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I know it’s a même but Linux isn’t that good for running old app that have a user interface. Old command line interface works perfectly but that’s mostly for developer.

      windows make it available to everyone.

      It’s one of the few things windows does better, might as well recognize it.

      • dufkm@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Old command line interface works perfectly but that’s mostly for developer.

        No. I’m comfortable with command line tools, and I’m far from being a developer. People used DOS etc. as well without being developers.

  • printerjammed@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For real. We run windows server R 2008 or something at work, never update it. Works like a dream with our other less ancient servers