• Bears_Koolaid@lemmy.world
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        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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          i have several clients with xp, or even older, in similar roles. i keep a couple old desktops (slot 1 celeron, anyone?) at the office just in case they need a replacement.

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    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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      That final frame brought up some repressed memories. It was not a great time to be in a tech support call center; the queues never ended.

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    I have one old Panasonic Toughbook that still runs XP. It’s a control system for a specific scientific instrument. Damn thing just keeps chugging along. Fortunately, I physically removed the wifi chip lest anyone get any ideas.

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      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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      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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      You might be able to copy dxvk and dx11/dx12 libraries from Proton/Wine. Not sure if it’ll work as you’ll somehow need to find a way to get vulkan to work, but sounds like a good weekend project to me.

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      Same, except its a legit pro license and I slip-streamed all of the last updates including the windows POS updates and firefox into an unofficial service pack 4 for convenience.

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    I miss XP, the last OS from Microsoft that felt like it had a clear human touch IMO.

    That installation music…oh, baby…

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    I run XP on my Dell E510 (with good capacitors! ). I love revisiting some of my old games that just don’t hit the same on modern Win. Battlezone II, Battlefield 1942, Rollercoaster Tycoon.