Windows, can I run this 25 year old software I just installed?
macOS, can I install this 2 year old program?
No, the architecture is no longer supported in this version of macOS
“no because the dev hasn’t paid us to certify it as safe so you’ll have to jump through 37 hoops in order to allow you to right click, hold options, and click open. THEN we’ll give you an option to install it”
Is this a LibreWolf on Mac reference, because I hate this so much about LibreWolf on Mac lol.
I mean, macOS has a lot of issues but the one hoop needed to run any unsigned app is “right-click app icon, click open”.
Sometimes it won’t let you even get to that step without going into the settings and finding a secret security notification that it blocked it from opening
Yeah, and in rare instances, you’ll need to take the app/binary out from the quarantine
I guess that is true, yes. I do think it’s generally a good thing that they’re locking down specific permissions like that though.
Are you still taking about macs? Because that’s Windows.
Is it? The only hoop I can remember jumping through is the (usually) singular UAC popup
Unless you’re Ubisoft and pop up 5-8 of them every time you open Ubisoft connect
Windows will block any software that isn’t popular. Unless the developer pays Microsoft.
I think I’ve seen this before, very rarely though. If I remember correctly you can continue to open it from the popup, right?
“Windows Smartscreen has blocked this app from running”
Yes, you can pull the “more options” thing and run it.
There’s a button to ignore it, and paying Microsoft wouldn’t help anyways, there’s someone else you need to pay for signing keys
John Windows himself…
I’ve never seen that, and I’ve been using Windows professionally and personally for…ever.
My issues are not install, but uninstall. Why do I have so much crap installed? I used it on a project once 7 years ago and haven’t since. Why not uninstall it? It is useful, just not currently. It took less than a minute to install when you installed it the first time and your connection is faster now? But what if the archive goes down or it is retired or obsolete? It is small, keep it!
Turns out lots of small adds up to big.
And yet some linux devs look at me using containers for development like I’m the Demon Lord of Overhead
Turns out lots of small adds up to big.
Nickel and dimed into a dollar I see
Specially for rolling release distros.
I had fun installing everything I thought of just checking out once, including games and stuff (assets tend to be large).
But after a few updates and not actually using most of them, I realised how much load I was putting on the network and removed many of them.
I wanted to do the cool neofetch thing all the femboys in thigh highs are doing. Shits already installed on mint. My boring ass win98 clone is doing the femboy thing no questions asked.
Hey. The cool transfems in thigh highs are doing it too.
Interesting. Neofetch has ceased development but fastfetch is here to take its place though.
Not gonna lie, having to relearn that muscle memory is gonna be hard lol.
You can always alias it! With my neofetch config, I get nearly identical output with fastfetch so I switched a while back.
Windows: can’t run SETUP.EXE as it is a 32 bit program
Roller Coaster Tycoon came out in 1999 but I notice it didn’t come preinstalled on Mint. Is my install broken? /s
Sorry, only 25 year old software included. You’re on your own for 27 year old software.
“Old tools” does not mean obsolete or bad. It means tested, hardened, and reliable. And crucially, probably runs in a couple megabytes of memory, which you might need if the cost of RAM suddenly quintuples for no reason.
B-but don’t you want AI in vi?
You can almost hear the legacy programmers screaming about Haskel and C from here. /j
Windows 11 won’t install those 25 year old programs anymore. Wine will.
I’m really sorry to do this, but 25 years ago was 2001.
Now that the painful part is out of the way, 32-bit software from 2001 should work in Windows 11.
Oh, it should work and it will if you put all the files in the right places yourself by say installing it on wine and copying the changes to the wine system directories over, but starting in Windows 11 running the installer gets a deliberate “this program isn’t meant for this version of Windows” error.
Run the installer in compatibility mode, then run the application in compatibility mode?
Didn’t work. Application doesn’t even need compatibility mode to run. Running the app copied by someone else from their previous Windows 10 computer sorta works but didn’t find files installed to system directories. Windows 11 just deliberately refuses to execute the installer probably based on recognizing the old family of installer programs specifically.
The users wanted a new Linux laptop. I installed LMDE, showed them how to run the installer with wine. It made a menu item. Drag and drop from whatever the cinnamon file manager is doesn’t work, and there was no file association to open the program’s files. I added one that just opens them with wine and lets it figure it out. I also showed them where their wine c drive was.
After a few weeks they wanted to print to pdf as well as their printer from wine and I had them install cups-pdf
You will run into a lot of old Library issues. Like elf binary missing, lack of 32 bit is starting to become a problem. If you have any old 2.4 kernel dependencies your probably gonna have a problem in Linux
My machines and my children’s machines will never boot Windows again.
Good! Not sure how that’s relevant, but good!
Windows sucks, but I made some tools 20 yrs ago and they still just run in win11. As they did on all other windows before since…I dunno, 95? Or 3.11?
But anyhow: Windows sucks.
you’re right, but Windows 7 had a space in our hearts, after that it’s all a load of garbage
3.11, 98, 8.1 and 10 were okay too. I was there…3000 years ago.
Depends on the program. I’ve got a handful of that old on CDs that still install fine. Checked when I was backing them up to ISO. There’s little bits of weirdness and unintended behavior while running them now, but they still install and run to a fairly acceptable degree.
That experience varies wildly though. Wine tends to handle things better and more consistently.
I’ve tried getting Windows XP games to run both in windows 7/10/11 and wine with little success. However, I have gotten them to work in Windows XP virtual machines.
Nope, can’t find this ancient version of libc!
You can still compile it against the modern version.
And if it’s static linked it will either run or you can ask Linus to murder someone for you.
If I may, is there a way to quickly and easily have a disposable/revertible environment for building? For Fedora specifically. It’s annoying to install a whole suite of packages because I need them just this once and then either manually delete the ones I didn’t manually install before and actually need or just live with a whole bunch of devel packages that’ll never be used again
Distrobox might be the easiest way. If you use a custom HOME directory you can even keep the build artefacts isolated.
You can use docker for that. I think there are even some tools to make it easier to use for that use case, but I just use plain docker for it
Hmm I’ll email Linus
I was trying to compile the first version of SuperTuxKart just for fun, how naive I were… Nowadays it’s like translating ancient runes and good luck finding those ancient libraries
We have a 22 year old version of RedHat 4. It works fine and is reliable but has problems with out dated security.
Initial release of
ddwas for Unix in 1974 and it’s still updated for use in modern systems.I used it just the other day and it was already installed.
Helps that if they aren’t installed, they will be aliased to the opensource equivalent.
I am looking at you
cc. I should NOT have been able to follow a programming book that old so smoothly when I knew nothing about computers at the time.WIndows will install it. Running it correctly… different story.
Ole’ reliable, vi
However you’re on Debian stable and the latest version of the package that came out 24 years ago is still too new.
