Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

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• Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  DATA BREACH LEVEL: MAXIMUM

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  • lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sasser out of nowhere.

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• jsveiga@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Entertaining human written read.

  But if I’m going to be that reckless, I’d rather feel the forbidden joy of riding my motorcycle sans helmet!

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• AteshgaRubyTeeth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still regularly visit customers that use Windows XP

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  • gsa32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Like, as a daily driver, for specific uses, or both?

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    • Bears_Koolaid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I run a CNC machine which requires XP for the control program. The only other option was DOS. We installed it via floppy

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• CyberBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey I like to live dangerously. I still have a Windows XP ISO (yes, it’s pirated come at me micro$oft) I use to make virtual machines in VirtualBox from time to time.

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• cassetti@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Relevant comic immediately popped into my mind

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Could I even install DirectX to get modern games working on it? I remember when Vista came out, the big thing was that it had DX10 while XP only went up to 9.

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  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Based on how difficult it was for the authors of this piece to even get a web browser to work or to find drivers for hardware, I doubt you’d get DX10+ to work.

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  • JohnEdwa@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IIRC GTX 700 was the last nVidia generation to have XP driver support so you probably wouldn't be able to get it working properly anyway.

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you can get Vulkan to work, you can potentially use DXVK and VKD3D for DirectX 10-12 support.

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