Was sometime in January 2009, switched to Linux.
The last time I turned off XP was a few months ago when I replaced it with Linux Mint on a PC I use to play old games in my room (because I wanted to play old MMOs and that required internet access, which XP would not have been safe for.)
You can pry this peak UI from my cold, dead hands: https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc
So true…
speak for yourself. I still use XP.
I hope it is a Virtual Machine? 😮
hospital, not unlikely
it’s a physical device. running on an old AMD Athlon X2 64 939.
I use it to play old retro games on. it is connected to the internet but browsers don’t really work on it anymore. Usually I find the old web root or ftp sites on my main and download them directly in xp.
edit: I forgot about the XP desktop I made my kid too. not connected to the internet, but is connected to the lan. it’s in storage right now, which is why I forgot about it.
Unfortunately I do too. I work in a lotto office. The lotto machines are over 20 years old and run XP Embedded. Thankfully the computers where we do most of the actual work have modern CPUs and NVMEs running a modern OS.
Nah I got a Windows XP VM for work! I love it!
Oh I definitely knew. I swore off that system after I spent hours repairing a rootkit on my families multiple computers only for it to happen again a week later.
I moved to Unix and only run a bare bones 11 install for games which is almost not even necessary anymore
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.
me, applying sketchy system tweaks and wrenching control of my PC away from itself so that I can control my own settings again:
“The hell I did”
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.
I work in a manufacturing automation world. I still use xp.
Oh yeah, I swear that two years ago Southwest had a total crash of their systems because they still had NT4 machines.
Yup, I use a million dollar system that runs on XP. We updated the computer last year. They sent us a PC that dual boots XP and Win10. Win10 so it can connect to the internet and pull updates. XP so it can run the control program, which is written in Flash.
Flash
Diabolical
I took courses in actionscript 😂😥😥😂😂
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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.
Yeah, I remember that I left Empire: Total War open for a few hours and it smelted my video card.
Next PC came with Vista and I loved it
Ewww, Vista.
That’s like stepping in something nasty
Vista was good, actually.
Like fuck aero but it was glanced, the chess, the useless performance metric, the ugliness and the final straw before switching to Linux
It’s probably been a few months for me. If I could remember where I put that laptop.
cries in old laser printer
