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Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025
(fireborn.mataroa.blog)
Running WXP on the metal??? I thought I was mad!
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.
When Vista came out I didn't get the hate because my vista pc was considerably more stable than my xp machine.
I used Win ME throughout the entire XP lifespan. The BSODs only made me resilient that whatever bullshit microsoft could come up with.
Stability aside, I loved ME's personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like "yours."
I wish they had kept with that into later versions.
Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D
It was fine, if it ran.
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)
Lol, and this guy is blind on top of it all. I respect the commitment - people in my life are pissed I'm not on all the big walled gardens.
I’m not eager to turn this into a malware museum
It's an XP machine on the internet. I think it already is.
Ever since Supermium/Mypal68 came XP is 100% usable albeit insecure. Runs MS Office 2010 and OpenOffice so there's no issue with document compatibility too.
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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