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

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

GNU/Linux:

• Can I install this 20yo software?
• Is already installed.

• "Can you run on this 20 y/o piece of hardware?"
• Linux: "hold my beer!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The third panel of that is LINUX: Can you install this 25 year old program?

It was already installed on there.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.