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.
Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn
Submitted 3 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/
Comments
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It was fine, if it ran.
eutampieri@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
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)
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Lol, and this guy is blind on top of it all. I respect the commitment - people in my life are pissed I’m not on all the big walled gardens.
I’m not eager to turn this into a malware museum
It’s an XP machine on the internet. I think it already is.
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Ever since Supermium/Mypal68 came XP is 100% usable albeit insecure. Runs MS Office 2010 and OpenOffice so there’s no issue with document compatibility too.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Running WXP on the metal??? I thought I was mad!