Why are you still using Windows XP in 2025?

[OldSchoolPersuasive]

Is it because windows 11 sucks and cannot run your 2001 pc, or you feel nostalgia?

 

[Chiron]

- Because it makes me feel at home.
- Because it's fast, reliable and reasonably devoid of useless frills
- Because it hasn't given me a BSOD in the last 11 years
- Because Microsoft's later progeny are steadily going from bad to worse
- Because I'm too lazy to switch to Linux
- Because it does only what I tell it to do
- Because it can be easily prevented from calling home
- Because...

It's a long, long, long list. Do you really want me to continue?

 

[OldSchoolPersuasive]

- Because it makes me feel at home.
- Because it's fast, reliable and reasonably devoid of useless frills
- Because it hasn't given me a BSOD in the last 11 years
- Because Microsoft's later progeny are steadily going from bad to worse
- Because I'm too lazy to switch to Linux
- Because it does only what I tell it to do
- Because it can be easily prevented from calling home
- Because...

It's a long, long, long list. Do you really want me to continue?

continue

 

[Chiron]

continue

Just use the magic word 'please' and I'll comply. My son learnt that when he was three. And you?
Old school, you know...

 

[TopNotch729]

Is it because windows 11 sucks and cannot run your 2001 pc, or you feel nostalgia?

Mainly because all I ever do on a computer is play games, and all the games I play on a daily basis only run on Windows XP. Games like GTA: Vice City, Midtown Madness, CSI: Miami, etc... For everything else I use my Apple iPad 2nd generation.

 

[NTTLP - XP]

_ Because it makes me feel at home.
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-Because it can be easily prevented from calling home...

_Because it does only what I tell it to do...!



In this new year (2025) I have made the tenacity to resuscitate my old computers, to put Windows XP, in Dual Boot- unforgettable in my laptop and others computers, I have to deal with Windows 11…