I have a WinXP notebook for my ADF scanner (works with SANE but strangely every page is shifted by a few lines, so if you scan a lot of stuff it becomes unusable)
Comment on Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Windows XP wasn’t even secure and reliable, at the time. At this point it’s indistinguishable from keeping Windows 95 on a full tower from Gateway because nothing else supports your vintage scanner. You’re one step from the tech-priests waving incense as a ritual against crashing.
eutampieri@feddit.it 20 hours ago
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 20 hours ago
When Vista came out I didn’t get the hate because my vista pc was considerably more stable than my xp machine.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I used Win ME throughout the entire XP lifespan. The BSODs only made me resilient that whatever bullshit microsoft could come up with.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
It was fine, if it ran.