People are used to their workflows and windows makes it a big deal to update from one version to another. Especially if you’ve made particular setups or used hacks they’re pretty much guaranteed to stop working. Linux doesn’t usually do this but I’m getting the same issue with android where every update breaks something and it’s worse because here there is no option to not upgrade.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Isn’t Windows like the king of backwards compatibility? I am of the opinion that it’s more people that just like the OS because they’re used to it, not that it’d actually break their workflows. They’d just have to learn a few new ways of doing things, and they don’t want to.
In thinking about this, I have come up with a few reasons to not upgrade OSs:
Finally, in thinking about this, I’m just so glad Linux exists and is actually a good alternative to Windows.
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 days ago
From what I remember it’s backwards compatible on lower levels but can you easily run a Windows 7 app on Windows 10? Windows 11 was a smaller change but then they force you to upgrade hardware which is opposite of compatibility.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yes? Pretty much anything made for XP and up will run on 11. Shit as long as the program is 32 bit it will probably run. Only exception is games, and that’s more just because hardware has moved on.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I wouldn’t expect someone to upgrade hardware just to get the newest OS. And yeah, you can run a windows 7 app on windows 10, there’s a compatibility mode in the properties of the exe where you can tell it to run in Windows xyz compatibility mode, though often you won’t need to bother with that, as it’ll just work.