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Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 (fireborn.mataroa.blog)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Windows XP wasn't even secure and reliable, at the time. At this point it's indistinguishable from keeping Windows 95 on a full tower from Gateway because nothing else supports your vintage scanner. You're one step from the tech-priests waving incense as a ritual against crashing.

[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago

I have a WinXP notebook for my ADF scanner (works with SANE but strangely every page is shifted by a few lines, so if you scan a lot of stuff it becomes unusable)

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