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it got so extreme i installed wine on wsl to run a few old programs because windows 11 dropped support for some libraries
That’s absolutely hilarious and I don’t doubt it for a second.
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.
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.
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Linux:
User: Can you install this 50 year old program?
Linux: it’s already installed
No you can’t because the dependency doesn’t exit anymore.
Then compile it from the sources
Yes because that is more user friendly than running an executable through a built in compatibility layer… suure
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.”
I’m playing first Doom (yeah that Doom from 1993) on my laptop with Win 10
To be fair a pc playing doom isn’t that impressive. That game runs on litterally everything
Thinking like that is how I bricked my blender.
- “Can you run on this 20 y/o piece of hardware?”
- Linux: “hold my beer!”
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).
Ah, jeez, it was just a joke.
I mean, tons of old drivers are on the repositories of major distros, you just have to install them. Just because it’s not in the kernel as pre-configured doesn’t mean you can’t just add it.
That’s never been my experience in the slightest.
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
GNU/Linux:
- Can I install this 20yo software?
- Is already installed.
there is nothing to do
If you do
echo "3 6 * p" | dc
in a terminal it’ll give you the result of 3x6, but thedc
part of that is software that was written probably between 1969 and 1971.That is crazy and cool! Thanks!
how about this driver for an obscure 20yo laptop’s touchpad?
already installed
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.
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).
huh. Did you end up using a ethernet cable then?
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.
You guys are awesome!
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.
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.
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
That’s… not great