Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn

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• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Running WXP on the metal??? I thought I was mad!

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• 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.

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When Vista came out I didn’t get the hate because my vista pc was considerably more stable than my xp machine.

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    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was fine, if it ran.

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  • eutampieri@feddit.it ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)

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