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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The one thing you have to give Microsoft is backwards compatibility. They make hot garbage, but God damn if you can't run that garbage from 10 years ago.

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Although 10 years ago isn't that long in computer terms any more. Those are machines that can still run Windows 10 without issue. It's an older computer, but still perfectly usable these days.

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I haven't done the experiment, I'm curious to know if you can take a random binary compiled for Linux 10 years ago run on the latest version of popular distros. See in which ones it runs.

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on it and its dependencies, probably. A lot of the core utilities are generally unchanged enough that they should still work despite being a decade old.

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[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 point 1 year ago

Sure, but it's not quite the compelling argument it used to be.

Today, I'm not sitting here pining for old Linux software that stopped working. And the small amount of old windows software that did finally stop working actually works now only works on Linux with Wine.

That's another of the decision points that finally switched to fully favoring Linux, for me, in the last decade.

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