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Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know why I even bother opening the settings app

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I googled a bit, and perhaps this statement comes from this old Reddit thread here in the first comments.

There it's mainly used as a joke to describe how Windows is just very backwards compatible in general. The story might have stuck and warped a bit as like it really had a reference to that Barbie game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, I did find this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I couldn't find a reference to Barbie in your link, or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, I’m just saying that compatibility databases do seem to exist, and the existence of “custom” ones implies that there is a built-in one. It wouldn’t be surprising to find out that Barbie and about a million other widespread legacy executables are in there.