Why do you still use XP?

Thank you - just out of curiosity - did you go with the sysVinit version or the runit version? 32 bit or 64 bit?

https://antixlinux.com/download/

Good to see I'm not alone in my linux use because I was flamed a while back for doing such and compared to a criminal but I shall not drudge up the old posting ... better left be.
 
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For VM im using 32bit and I always use SysV init because its old and reliable. AntiX boots very quickly, so that entire runit stuff to make boot process faster by parallerizing init process seems pointless.

Point of warning tho, 32 bit web browsing starts to die.
This is ridiculus. FF constantly crashes after longer period of usage (like 30-40 min or more) because it runs out of VSZ (address space). Once it hit 3GB (basic web browsing start wth 2GB!!!) it will crash.

Still, its good enough, so I can browse some trash websides that does NOT work anymore on my old Palemoon :)
 
Sokrates said:
At some point this perverse trend must be stopped before the OS takes the lion's share of the system and relegates the users and their software to a dusty corner. I believe XP is that point.
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Seven years have gone in a blink of an eye, and that sinister prophecy of mine seems to have come true: from what I read of Windows 11 the Windows user has become a dispensable accessory of the computer, useful only to pay for the hardware and to provide some free marketable personal information :(

Would anyone ask me again why I'm still on XP?
 
I haven't used every flavor of Windows, but from those which I have dealt with, I think XP is the only one that they finally cured most of the bugs with.

MS still has a history of putting garbage on the market, and then waiting for the phone calls so they know which problems most customers are dealing with the most. Then, after several years have gone by they finally have customers reasonably happy with their old software. Which means it's time to stop supporting it, so folks think the world will end if they don't upgrade. Keep$ M$ in bu$ine$$.
 
I have two old computers that I still run Windows XP on. They both have Athlon XP CPUs on. These CPUs don't support SSE2 which is required for newer versions of Windows new than Windows XP. To clarify Windows 7 would work but newer updates the crashed the computer because they assumed SSE2 support. Worse yet after the crashes I had to use system restore in order to boot into Windows again.
 
I use XP because i respect two things - traditions and useful things.
New operational systems are creating for one sense - to take money from users. Much better for people would to create one operation system and fix bugs in her through the decades (actually, as i understand, Apple does it). But then salary in companies will small. If create newer and newer operational systems - people will pay, pay and pay.
But i am sure - if some thing works good, let it be.
Also i'm very old-fashioned person and i don't like changes. I used WinXP as my first OS, so why i cannot use it further? It works, and works good. I can watch movies on my computer, read the books, play some old good games. I know what means every shortcut, i feel peaceful.
Maybe someday i will more rich and will buy newer computer... but i will use him only for internet and for modern games maybe (not sure because mostly modern games are crap).
God bless those who supports traditions too.
 
Hi all! I am using XP because I still can. I have found Mypal 68, and I am able to get on most websites without any problems. Here it is 12/9/2024 and my 21 year old computer is still working great. I have two other PCs, one with win 10 and other win 11, but xp puts them both to shame, in my opinion.
 
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