• ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
    331·
    2 years ago

    What a fuckin lie. Can’t play some Windows 7 games on Windows 10 or above but on Linux it works.

    • HoloPengin@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 years ago

      Tfw compatibility for some old Windows programs and games is better in Wine than in modern Windows

    • tiltmachine@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      Most people will need internet connection to Google specific commands to run or install the most trivial things, and it won’t always work depending on what distro you’re using. Oh you’re using MX Linux? Goodluck downloading a Plex client installer and just clicking it to install. Maybe use Snap but then good luck creating a shortcut with just a right click.

      Limux won’t replace Windows anytime soon, not if even enthusiasts need to Google almost everything.

      • constantokra@lemmy.one
        1·
        2 years ago

        Bold of you to think I’d install a Plex client when I can just stream video in my terminal with mplayer in glorious ASCII.

        And why would you search the internet when there’s a manual built right in?

  • gun@lemmy.ml
    13·
    2 years ago

    In my experience, Windows can install a 25 year old program, but it won’t work

  • CrownCrafter@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    Windows is def better than Mac for backwards compatibility, but nah dude it’s not even close to perfect. Ive had better luck using wine for old windows programs

    • tubbadu@lemmy.world
      141·
      2 years ago

      Can I install this 20yo software?

      user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

      SUDO Can I install this 20yo software?

      Is already installed.

    • Slartibartfast@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      If you do echo "3 6 * p" | dc in a terminal it’ll give you the result of 3x6, but the dc part of that is software that was written probably between 1969 and 1971.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 years ago

        Had this exact scenario with an old flatbed scanner. No win10 drivers and it never had mac drivers. Ran without issue in up to date Mint.

      • Aras@feddit.de
        1·
        2 years ago

        Actually once recently I had problems because the wifi driver (b43) for the Dell Latitude D505 (2004) wasn’t in the live Boot environment (cause un-free).

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Old Linux software usually has to be completed from source anyway (uhh the effort) which essentially makes it future proof

    • le_saucisson_masque@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      I know it’s a même but Linux isn’t that good for running old app that have a user interface. Old command line interface works perfectly but that’s mostly for developer.

      windows make it available to everyone.

      It’s one of the few things windows does better, might as well recognize it.

      • dufkm@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        Old command line interface works perfectly but that’s mostly for developer.

        No. I’m comfortable with command line tools, and I’m far from being a developer. People used DOS etc. as well without being developers.

  • tarneo@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    More like “Installing… Do you want avast or X or Y installed along with it?” No thanks, I very much prefer Linux package managers.

  • AlexTheLost@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    Gonna be honest, this isn’t my experience, a lot of stuff just doesn’t work on Windows anymore

    I can get those same programs to work fairly easily on linux though using Wine/Proton

  • Engywuck@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago
    • “Can you run on this 20 y/o piece of hardware?”
    • Linux: “hold my beer!”
    • deadcream@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Only if you use 15 years old distribution. Linux actually drops support of older hardware faster than Windows, it just doesn’t happen consistently. Old drivers are maintained by volunteers so if someone wants to spend their free time on a driver for 25 years old hardware then it will work. But the moment that single developer disappears or stops caring then this driver is booted from the kernel fast. Supporting old hardware isn’t the goal of Linux unless someone make it their goal (and core developers don’t care either way as long as it’s not their job).

  • GreyHouseElf@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    And yet somehow, it’s also complete garbage. I’ve tried installing win10 while having 11 drives connected to my system. Guess what, the win10 installer can’t count past 10, so instead of installing to drive 11 like it should have, it installed to drive 1. Because no one would ever use more than 10 drives in their system I guess. Drive 1 was my current OS and got nuked hard, even my backups couldn’t get it to work again.

    • duncesplayed@lemmy.one
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah Windows compatibility is both amazingly impressive and complete garbage.

      Need to run something from 1992? Sure! No problem!

      Need to run something from 2021? Sorry, no compatibility for that old API.

  • Gerryflap@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    Not my experience. I’ve had multiple old games and an old printer that just straight up didn’t work under Windows. On Linux however (using wine for the windows exe’s) it usually does run. Sometimes it does require some googling, but there’s usually someone who tried it before.

    • Square Singer@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Games are actually the hardcore compatibility test. They are much less compatible than the average piece of software. That’s due to them using much more of the hardware/low-level-APIs of the OS, but also due to DRM and Anti-Cheat-Software (where applicable).

      And printers are also (for some reason) super difficult. Probably because they are cheap, planned-obsolescence pieses of crap hardware, which are chock-full of DRM.

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    My dosbox and multiple attempts to build VMs of windows 3.1 say this isn’t completely true

    • MudMan@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Man, I hate to break it to you, but the Windows version from 25 years ago is… Windows 98.

      I know, I know. I’m so sorry. I felt like that when I noticed, too.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Win98 software also do not work reliably on modern Windows. Microsoft abandoned that kind of compatibility a while ago for a mix of both good and bad reasons.

        You will have better odds of running it on ReactOS or Linux.

  • quazar@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    The third panel of that is LINUX: Can you install this 25 year old program?

    It was already installed on there.