Can you install thid 25 year old program?

I actually had more success getting old windows games to run in modern linux with wine than in modern windows.

MacOS: "The world came into existence fully formed ten years ago so it would be silly to even try running software older than that."

macOS: Noo we broke compatibility with 64-bit and with Intel

Both of them:

Program: crashes

A lot of windows UI is 30 years old

Applies to both, some parts of windows havent been updated since forever

Did everyone forget Chad is a caricature?

The joke is that the 25y old Linux software is still maintained.

That's just not true in windows case

Anakin: "I'm going to install this 25 year old game"

Padme (smiling): "Install and run it, right?"

Anakin: smirk

Padme (frowning): "Install and run it, right?"

Unix: the version of the OS that built it is still supported (solaris 10 may have a 22-year support window, and counting).

Can you open this 25 year old document? Windows: Why would I want to do that? Linux: Of course!

Windows: Can you run 25 year old binaries? Yes you can.

Linux: Can you build 25 year old software from source? Yes you can.

Which package manager would you like to use today ?
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Arch: wtf? Remove that bloat immediately and check for updates

Windows can't even install its own old products! I remember back when I had to upgrade systems from XP to 7 and the users needed IE8 in able to use some internal websites. Microsoft was like "Fuck you, you can only use IE9 or above" there was literally no way to download IE8.

I also hate it when they only make shit available through the Windows Store or another convoluted process. No more downloading a simple EXE or MSI and double clicking it!

Mac: No

I hired into a community college IT dept ~2000. Manager told me they were a Windows shop. Ha np. I proceeded to replace 3/4 of their server room with Linux. email, cd servers, file servers, web servers, db2, PeopleSoft(gack!). I was working on a cs degree which they paid for about half

At my job we shut down a system with v4 of RHEL that had an uptime of a few years (we have generator power backups).

I tried to install Animorphs Action Game from an old CD I found from the 90s and it didn't launch. This meme is a LIAR!

Installing 25 year old binaries on Linux is rather interesting - relevant for stuff like some of the old Loki ports. Problem is mostly that they've been written with kernel 2.2 in mind, which does have different behaviour for quite a few things - you generally can find old libc versions compatible with the binary, but those libc versions don't necessarily play nice with the kernel.

There are some compatibility flags which made things work last time I checked - but not sure if that's the case, and it definitely won't work forever, given that 32bit x86 support is likely to be dropped eventually.

Windows: nope, too old. Find a version that's compatible with your current installation.

Trust me, I tried playing some old CD games from my dad's shed on Windows 10 for such a long time, it wouldn't even let me do that without having to rely on a virtual machine. Most of those games were in French and German, btw.