2y ago

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

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2y ago

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

www.theregister.com /2023/07/24/dangerous_pleasures_win_xp_in_23/

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DATA BREACH LEVEL: MAXIMUM
- Sasser out of nowhere.
I still regularly visit customers that use Windows XP
- Like, as a daily driver, for specific uses, or both?
  
  I run a CNC machine which requires XP for the control program. The only other option was DOS. We installed it via floppy
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!
Relevant XKCD comic immediately popped into my mind
- 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.
Are there any modern web browsers that still work on XP?
- Does this count?
  
  So a fork of an older version of Firefox? I will allow it. Beats IE6!
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.
Hey, I like to live dangerously! I still have a Windows XP ISO (yes, it's pirated come at me micro$oft) I use to make virtual machines in VirtualBox from time to time.
- 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.
  
  @thingsiplay why are you reducing every comment I post? I can see you're doing them all at once via my profile...
Could I even install DirectX to get modern games working on it? I remember when Vista came out, the big thing was that it had DX10 while XP only went up to 9. And now they're on 12.
- 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.
- If you can get Vulkan to work, you can potentially use DXVK and VKD3D for DirectX 10-12 support.
- 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.
- 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.
I miss XP, the last OS from Microsoft that felt like it had a clear human touch IMO.
That installation music...oh, baby...
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.

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