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[โ€“] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

25 year old Windows programs work better in Linux with wine than in Windows ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] KuudereEnthusiast@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

Wine is the most stable ABI on Linux ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a fuckin lie. Can't play some Windows 7 games on Windows 10 or above but on Linux it works.

[โ€“] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will always remember Battle For Middle Earth working first try on Linux after spending hours fighting with it on Windows

[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

That game is a classic.

[โ€“] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

GNU/Linux:

  • Can I install this 20yo software?
  • Is already installed.
[โ€“] tubbadu@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] booklovero@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You guys are awesome!

[โ€“] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

how about this driver for an obscure 20yo laptop's touchpad?

already installed

[โ€“] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 5 points 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.

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[โ€“] trent@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

there is nothing to do

[โ€“] Slartibartfast@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] Engywuck@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  • "Can you run on this 20 y/o piece of hardware?"
  • Linux: "hold my beer!"
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[โ€“] IuseArchbtw@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Linux gang has entered the chat

[โ€“] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Linux:

User: Can you install this 50 year old program?

Linux: it's already installed

[โ€“] version_unsorted@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

User: Linux can you install this software from this ancient obscure operating system?

[โ€“] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No you can't because the dependency doesn't exit anymore.

[โ€“] Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Then compile it from the sources

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[โ€“] eltimablo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Have you heard to Good Word of our Lord and Savior, AppImage?

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[โ€“] HoloPengin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tfw compatibility for some old Windows programs and games is better in Wine than in modern Windows

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[โ€“] gun@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

In my experience, Windows can install a 25 year old program, but it won't work

[โ€“] CrownCrafter@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] tarneo@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

More like "Installing... Do you want avast or X or Y installed along with it?" No thanks, I very much prefer Linux package managers.

[โ€“] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do current Windows versions even start anything that was compiled for pre-Vista? I thought they don't?

[โ€“] snixyz@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, you can start almost all 32 bit software in Windows 11.

[โ€“] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. It's 16bit app support for win3.1/95 stuff that ran in the DOS layer that's depreciated, but even then they'll sometimes run.

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[โ€“] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly exactly that is the reason that windows is just a bunch of spaghetti code XD

[โ€“] BlueDiamond@rammy.site 2 points 1 year ago

What is spaghetti code? (Sorry am non coder)

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Windows is 90% bloat, 9% library and 1% operational...

[โ€“] Jon-H558@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] quazar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] AlexTheLost@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] GreyHouseElf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] ikantolol@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

also the reason you can still find a dialogue window from like Win95 lol, people often whine how Windows doesn't look as pretty as MacOS, but I think that's just the price for crazy backwards compatibility.

if they remove those old elements, I'd bet people are gonna rage about how their old games or software no longer work.

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[โ€“] jannis@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried to install Civilization 2 from a CD on Windows 10. It didn't work.

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[โ€“] 14four@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Windows after launching the exe: Monitor flickers, mouse freezes and here is free blue screen!

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[โ€“] primalmotion@lemmy.antisocial.ly 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux, can you install this 70 year old program? It's already running, bro

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I hear a lot about Windows backwards compatibilyty, but i don't think it has ever actualy worked for me. Every time i tried to install a program meant for anything older then win7/win10 i get some cryptic error and end up using a VM.

[โ€“] Gerryflap@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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