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.
T156@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Although 10 years ago isn’t that long in computer terms any more. That’s basically 4th Gen Intel Core CPU territory. It’s an older computer, but still perfectly usable these days.
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
T156@lemmy.world 1 day 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.