• knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    As long as you want, assuming that you’re fine with the security risks and everything that’s rendered incompatible in the future.

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          7 months ago

          I worked in a company which ran everything down to MS-DOS

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            Two years ago I quit a company that was using a database (with sensitive user PII like social security numbers in the db) accessible via unencrypted TELNET. Not SSH, TELNET. I’m not fucking shitting you.

            I worked there for one week and was like “fuuuuuuuuuuck this” and lied and said I had a better offer and tendered my resignation. I wasn’t part of the IT department and I wasn’t going to go down for an incompetent IT department.

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            Yup. Currently working at a company that has machines still running ms-dos due to them being critical and still working fine.

            Well they’re fine until you can’t find replacement parts on Ebay anymore.

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      7 months ago

      To be honest, Windows 7 is best Windows for me but no existing applications can be used on it. So I hope I can use Windows 10 until game compatibility on Linux passes the threshold I’m looking for :)

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        Depending on your game preference it may be already there in some aspects

        Basically it depends on the kind of anticheat the game has

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        if you’re running a single instance of a game it’s already there. (I multibox so fuck me I guess)

        if you’re waiting for native support it’s a chicken and egg scenario, your best bet is to switch asap and show developers there’s a market.