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by bob1029 162 days ago
> there are 20 years of technical debt

The only part of windows that really matters in the long run is win32 which has been extremely stable. You could go back to XP and not lose that many features. The fact that modern windows runs like ass has very little to do with backwards compatibility.
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driggs 162 days ago
Windows 2000 or Windows XP - with security updates and modern hardware support - is exactly what I want.
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greenavocado 162 days ago
Zone94 is still releasing modern Windows XP distributions and OneCore API brings Windows 10-level app support to Windows XP.

https://github.com/shorthorn-project/One-Core-API-Binaries

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anal_reactor 162 days ago
the fuck
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freedomben 162 days ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but I do think there's an important distinction between technical debt and backwards compatibility. Yes The former can be caused by the latter, but I've worked in enough projects that didn't have to worry about backwards compatibility but were still riddled with technical debt to know that backwards compatibility is only one source of many.
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