• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    I nearly installed WinXP on an old piece of shit all-in-one computer (old celeron, 2gb ram, very slow hdd), but the CPU was too new to be supported. Installed Mint instead.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    No, it was when I got out my old high school computer to mess around with it and go “oh yeah” for a little bit. That was the last time I shut down Windows XP.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It happened when Battlefield Bad Company 2 released. XP couldn’t support it so I had to bite the bullet and switch over to Windows 7. At least I held out long enough to avoid Vista. Incidentally that was also the first and last game I bought for EA’s shitty Origin launcher.

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      MFW I use Windows ME

      It was a Compaq…and I threw it down a flight of stairs. True story. I was also a frustrated teenager at the same time so this makes sense

  • redlemace@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It never stops to amaze me how many factories still depend on win-xp (yes, win-xp!). It was always too expensive to upgrade the apps and machines. By now many will never happen anymore because now it’s a multi-step upgrade and cost even more. And STILL they expect 2025 type, level and quality support.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    What are you talking about? Of course I noticed. It was during the upgrade process to Vista. Then the last time I turned that off was when I fully switched to Linux.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    For my main comp this was actually from Vista RC something - I had enough RAM & it didn’t give me any compatibility issues (like Millennium before XP on my gaming rig, bcs manufacturer sux at drivers).

    I never really liked XP … I know, Im sorry!!
    I loved that it brought gaming to NT-ish stability tho.
    (Then again Windows classic theme rullz. Tho the og Aero was nice at the time.)

  • GCanuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    ROFL. I still manage a critical system that cannot be moved from XP.

    That day, for me, is in the far future.

        • Headofthebored @lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          I used to work at a candy factory where most of the machines that made the packaging were from the '50’s or earlier, but had been Frankenstein’d with all sorts of modern sensors and stuff to maximize efficiency. Anyways, there was this one one machine that was fascinating. It was from the 30’s I believe but all it did was make small boxes from flat paper stock and it was originally designed to be hand loaded, but they had this robot arm set up that looked like the one in the OG Jurassic Park movie that flipped the eggs basically handing it paper. The arm was controlled by a dusty ass Windows 95 PC that had one job, the robot arm program. This was like 4 years ago.