GNU/Linux:
- Can I install this 20yo software?
- Is already installed.
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Can I install this 20yo software?
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SUDO Can I install this 20yo software?
Is already installed.
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there is nothing to do
how about this driver for an obscure 20yo laptop's touchpad?
already installed
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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.
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Old Linux software usually has to be completed from source anyway (uhh the effort) which essentially makes it future proof
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25 year old Windows programs work better in Linux with wine than in Windows 🤣
it got so extreme i installed wine on wsl to run a few old programs because windows 11 dropped support for some libraries
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Wine is the most stable ABI on Linux 😂
What a fuckin lie. Can't play some Windows 7 games on Windows 10 or above but on Linux it works.
I will always remember Battle For Middle Earth working first try on Linux after spending hours fighting with it on Windows
That game is a classic.
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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.
Have you heard to Good Word of our Lord and Savior, AppImage?
User: Linux can you install this software from this ancient obscure operating system?
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Tfw compatibility for some old Windows programs and games is better in Wine than in modern Windows
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- "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).
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.
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Windows is def better than Mac for backwards compatibility, but nah dude it's not even close to perfect. Ive had better luck using wine for old windows programs
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
In my experience, Windows can install a 25 year old program, but it won't work
Do current Windows versions even start anything that was compiled for pre-Vista? I thought they don't?
Yes, you can start almost all 32 bit software in Windows 11.
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Not my experience. I've had multiple old games and an old printer that just straight up didn't work under Windows. On Linux however (using wine for the windows exe's) it usually does run. Sometimes it does require some googling, but there's usually someone who tried it before.
Games are actually the hardcore compatibility test. They are much less compatible than the average piece of software. That's due to them using much more of the hardware/low-level-APIs of the OS, but also due to DRM and Anti-Cheat-Software (where applicable).
And printers are also (for some reason) super difficult. Probably because they are cheap, planned-obsolescence pieses of crap hardware, which are chock-full of DRM.
The spooler spanning userland a d kernel address space was never going to go well, either.
To be fair, it went a lot worse than people thought, but that's probably because printers were cheap to produce and beancounters find programmers expensive
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I tried to install Civilization 2 from a CD on Windows 10. It didn't work.
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My dosbox and multiple attempts to build VMs of windows 3.1 say this isn't completely true
Man, I hate to break it to you, but the Windows version from 25 years ago is... Windows 98.
I know, I know. I'm so sorry. I felt like that when I noticed, too.
What did I ever do to you for you to hurt me in this way?
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This has been a great boon to me. Whenever Apple upgrades Mac OS, I check my regional equivalent to craigslist for cheap music gear that stops working. Has worked twice for me. I got a really nice 24 channel audio interface for 20 bucks.
More like "Installing... Do you want avast or X or Y installed along with it?" No thanks, I very much prefer Linux package managers.
The third panel of that is LINUX: Can you install this 25 year old program?
It was already installed on there.
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if that's the case why do I still have to support XP as some shop floor measurement device still uses software from that, and window 7 for the database of greases then the likilhood is the windows 10 to windows 11 project is taking 6months planning of impact assessments. (pretty sure if we had let them the tool planning dept would still be running their windows 3.1 lotus suite
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Sadly exactly that is the reason that windows is just a bunch of spaghetti code XD
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Linux, can you install this 70 year old program? It's already running, bro
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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.
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