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by csdreamer7 229 days ago
> At what point in history have you owned a particular piece of hardware for use with a particular piece of never-to-be-updated software and installed a major OEM operating system release a full 7 years after release without issue?

Linux users do it all the time with WINE/Proton. :-)

Before you complain about the term 'major OEM operating system'; Ubuntu is shipped on major OEMs and listed in the supported requirements of many pieces of hardware and software.

> I doubt such a thing has ever happened in the history of consumer-facing computing.

Comments like this show how low standards have fallen. Mac OS X releases have short support lengths. The hardware is locked down-you need a massive RE effort just to get Linux to work. The last few gens of x86 Mac hardware did not have as much, but it was still locked down. M3 or M4 still do not have a working installer. None of this is funded by Apple to get it working on Linux or to get Windows ARM working on it as far as I know.

In comparison, my brother in-law found an old 32bit laptop that had Windows 7. It forced itself without his approval to update to Windows 10. It had support for 10 years from Microsoft with just 10. 7 pushed that 10 to... hmm... 13+ years of support?
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nomel 229 days ago
> Linux users do it all the time with WINE/Proton. :-)

And there’s a near 100% chance you’ll have to recompile/download pre-re-compiled binaries if moving to a completely different architecture. Same here.

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Dylan16807 228 days ago
Not the same here. The user didn't have to get different binaries when they changed hardware, and that was a big selling point for the hardware. And now it's going to break in an arbitrary software update.
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nomel 228 days ago
They did if they moved from x86 to ARM.
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Dylan16807 228 days ago
There's some kind of massive communication breakdown or misunderstanding going on.

In "Not the same here”, "here" is people moving to M1. So no they very much didn't, that was the whole point of rosetta 2.

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csdreamer7 228 days ago
Not sure what you are saying. If you saying you need the gamedev to recompile for arm you can run a virtualization layer, just like Mac and Windows. My friend has had the best results with: https://fex-emu.com/
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