It's finally over...

nonsense, I use xubuntu just fine on an N3050 netbook that was $200 when I got it

these days you can get double the performance from an N4000 for the same price

win 2000 > win xp

Reminder the likelihood of op being a freetard shill is extremely high.

*2021 october 12

I would agree with you if it wasn't for the firewall that was added in SP2. That alone makes XP>2k
How windows (nt) went on for so long without such a critical feature is kinda crazy

I got a laptop from my sis, running Windows 10 (she had upgraded it from 8)
for a year and a half I didn't have much time to muck around with the UEFI issues making getting a linux on it harder, and it being my only computer at college (my main was back home)
Damn thing is slow and cranky, but damn it I could play SupCom on without issue.

Now I'm on Mint and firefox is struggling to work, every time I open a folder it takes ages, and the whole thing hangs every two hours at least from doing whatever.

Mint's had the best GUI so far at least, though still full of bullshit like bars you have to drag around instead of letting you set a precise value, the mess that the main menu is, the inability to place a damn '\n' on the taskbar/panel's clock display and lots kinks and wrinkles like that. Manjaro, XFCE and Lubuntu have so far proven to be varying degrees of worse on GUI and usability.

Worst offender so far is power management though. On windows I could set up the power button to just shut down the screen, I've yet to see that option onthe other distros I tried, and often what they offer doesn't quite match.
Manjaro and Xubuntu fucked me up badly cause randomly, when closing the lid, I'd come back to a locked session, log back in, and have the screen be completely shut off, incapable of turning back on no matter what, forcing me to restart.

But what I miss the most is the way Is how could throttle CPU usage on windows 10 depending on wether I was running on battery. That shit doubled my battery's lifetime. There may be some package or whatever that may offer that, but the selection is so broad, and the info they give you is so scarce, I'd rather not have to be trying every single one just to hunt that down.

And sure, I could use the terminal. I could look for and learn a command I'll use once, forget about for a year or so and have to look up and re-learn again some day, rather than blindly look for a button on an intuitive location.

i miss windows xp, but 7 is almost as good

>and have the screen be completely shut off, incapable of turning back on no matter what, forcing me to restart.
not to make excuses, but you can get around this by switching ttys
ctrl+alt+f1 -> ctrl+alt+f7

>But what I miss the most is the way Is how could throttle CPU usage on windows 10 depending on wether I was running on battery.
use tlp, it also has a gui to configure

/comfy/

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fpbp

How

2/3
And then there's the general bullshit, rather than distro specific
Every single distro is "light, extremely customizable and riceable", which is code for "we don't have the fancy animations enabled, and you can download themes and stuff for them aesthetics and get whatever packages you want, but good luck finding anything whose creator put ANY thought into gui and usability instead of muh lightness, extensibilty and aesthetics; we learnt from them and they learnt from us after all!"

I live in constant rage and dissapointment that things could be better if only the faggots with all the free time stopped lazying around using the existence of the cli as an excuse not to learn how to code a GUI. Hell, for all the insistence in using the CLI they rarely include a box on their half-assed guis to run a command from and help fill with the gui. Webm for retards has that, why don't the big freetards? It's a golden oportunity to teach more CLI

3/3
AND then still there's the package bullshit. If I don't trust microsoft not to spy me what makes you think I trust some litterally who to meddle with the packages I get? I want to download firefox straight from the devs, not have some shitty branding for your distro, some settings messed around with and a selection of search engines based on whatever your ideology as a distro is. If I'm to accidentally take botnet cock up the ass, I don't want an extra cock from some retard to tag along and stretch my gaping asshole further.

Besides, "muh lack of redundancy" my ass. Fucking Mint has some stupid ass drawing tablet preferences thingie, uninstalled that shit because I own no tablet and don't plan to. The whole cinnamon package went out with it, no option to remove one but remove the other. I trusted it, thinking "oh maybe it's not cinnamon but some component or whatever and wont be an issue".

It left shit unusable until I ctrl+alt+f1 and reinstalled cinnamon from there. No sign of that useless setting anywhere. If I could remove it and still have cinnamon work perfectly fine, why couldn't the package manager deal with that nicely? Why the fuck is firefox tied to GIMP's help pages? What the fuck is wrong with all this package bullshit?

Year of the linux desktop never ever. It's rotten from the inside. Windows a shit, same with Mac. There is literally no choice but different brands of rat poison, and one of them comes with a hundred different flavorings, ranging from natural to outright chemical.

How can Windows XP be dead when I can run it in virtual machine?
CHECKMATE GNUB/LOSERS!

>not to make excuses, but you can get around this by switching ttys
What did you think was the first thing I tried first time it happened?
Whatever scarce info I found on my phone on the issue just didn't work, and in the end I was always too busy not to just restart my laptop.
>use tlp
Will do. Definitely looking that one up right now, throttling this old laptop and it's equally old battery is simply a must.

switching ttys always works for me, I dunno
seems to be limited to lightdm/locker

There is a fascination about running unsupported OSes. Think of it like the computer equivalent of a steam locomotive. For some it’s pure nostalgia. For others is a rebellion against the support industry. And finally there are systems that cannot upgrade under any circumstances and can’t die that must use the old software. XP will continue to be used well into the 2020s, Microsoft will hate it.

Updates are useless anyway.

StartIsBack or ClassicShell I assume

"Unsupported" is only an issue if you connect to the internet.

In all fairness, back when I worked on a proyect with concurrency and NagiOS on my college's lubuntu desktops, it did save my ass farily often. We worked with 4-5 different computers, using scripts and installing shit on one while moving the other 3's mouses to stop them from turning off the screen when inactive and locking us out do to a similar issue, until I learnt the tty trick.

I don't remember much about lubuntu. I remember disliking it for some similar reasons to the rest of my rant, but I'm not really sure.
I should give it a try on my desktop some day.
I just hope it won't crush what little hope I still have for a decent distro to exist somewhere among all this variety.
...I should try getting away from ubuntu derivatives too, I guess.

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Fun fact: one of the giant antennas used for OTA TV for Boston runs its gorillion dollar multiplexer on Windows 95

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"Unsupported" is only an issue if you're 80 years old and click on porn website ads

rip thread

Or use an ancient browser, and stumble upon some malicious javascript. I still use XP on a few of my computers, and it's comfy as fuck.

Pic related

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poojeet code

>a brainlet blogs about his linux experience
i don't come to Jow Forums for this garbage

January 14, 2020*

POSReady 7 is supported until 2021

That trick worked on XP, but I haven't heard if it would work on 7?

Plus, why not just go to 8.1 and install classic shell or something similar.

because there was no need for it so far, and wont until 2020. but anyways, you can just straight up install POSReady 7 too.
also, if 8.1, go with Embedded Industry, if 10 go woth LTSC 2019

don't forget your final patch tuesday updates!

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Using LTSC 2019, it's great.

Are you implying im going to stop using it or something?
As long as it can shitpost and watch youtube videos im going to continue to use it every day.

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Rest in fucking peace XP. You were a good lass.
It's been a damn good run too. I've had an XP install on a small partition of my Thinkpad for quite a long time out of sheer respect, and I promised myself I would not delete it until today.
Godspeed.

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Nigger I run Linux full time on a Thinkpad X60 from 2005 and it runs perfect.

That comic
My heart

You're a good person user.

Just out of spite, I'm moving back to XP.
Fuck you OP

based

Aint nobody asking u about your gay ass OS

taskbar still looks kinda /dodgy/ though

There are many more reasons people use whatever that don't fall into your narrow and oversimplified view on how things are. With the "rebellion against the support industry" included, I assume you are somehow involved in "the support industry". The rebellion, seriously?

> I'm too stupid to find out how to make it work
FTFY

>unfaithful XP taskbar coupled with Windows 10 styled windows
No. Fuck off.

rip best windows

I have a Latitude 100L with a Pentium 4 Northwood, and 1GB RAM that runs Lubuntu 18.04 really well. You must be doing something wrong.

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>end of support means i should stop using something

i am a free man

Free to get exploited by the Chinese

But user, he didn't say he uses Maxthon to browse the web.

it's called not being retarded lmao just like don't get viruses haha nigga lmfao

For individuals, sure. Do whatever you want within your risk tolerance.

For organizations, regulations (PCI, HIPAA, etc.) mandate that the software you use is supported by the vendor with security fixes. So without an extended support agreement from Microsoft for the OS you aren't compliant. The auditors will be like flies to shit on that and it also opens up legal liability if there is a data breach and the unpatched endpoint was found to have some part in the incident. It's also a pain in the ass even if the system is isolated from anything subject to the regulation because you still have to document the controls and mitigations as to why the endpoint isn't a potential attack vector.

yeah but nobody on Jow Forums is doing any of that

You fags don't get how simplication of Linux is killing Linux. Microsoft is investing in this (Linux desktops and shit) cos they want to fucking control it you dumb fuck.

Don't run faggy GUIs then you fuck. Use it in terminal mode or with terminal+tiling desktops that won't screw your RAM and proc.

They can sure try, doubt they'll get far.

just dd the fucking partition to an image file and use it in a VM.
Why the fuck are you retards even on Jow Forums

Preach

Hope so

>ancient browser
360 Extreme Explorer is basically nu-Chrome for XP machines.

Fuck off you absolute Hindu

some of us will be using it for offline computing tasks because it's fast.
I'm thinking of either using a linux VM bridged with the LAN adapter, with TCP/IP and all protocols disabled in XP; or dual booting

My nigger, you can run time critical astrounaut life monitoring services and appliances on DOS and nobody will bat a fucking eye at it because it's doing its job correctly and accurately. OS wars are fucking stupid and neckbear wannabe know-it-all material. Use whatever the fuck you feel comfortable with.

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BASED
*dabs on windows 7 fags*

Steam locomotives are aesthetic and so is XP

I know, I just like seeing windows 95 being used 20 years later in a super expensive system.

wtf is 360 extreme explorer?

>FTFY
go back

>Linux

You mean GNU/Linux?

Does this shit apply to the poor bastards who just use the OS in an offline functionality to control other factory systems. It's just there to facilitate one or two other custom programs. Dun fix what ain't broke.

the easier code is to write the less performance it will give (the 'higher level' it is)

>unlocked taskbar
sort your life out mate

What's the big problem with continuing to use XP?
Is it a real worry that as soon as this shit expires then haxxaurs will immediately pounce?

Nobody's wasting time and valuable resources targeting obscure 20 year old vulnerabilities in browsers and operating systems that fell out of general usage decades ago. The effort is much more lucratively spent on social engineering or targeting systems with market penetration above a few hundred hobbyists' museum pieces.

NoScript and ad blockers fuck most of that shit anyway.

Microsoft tricked a bunch of retards into thinking that even mentioning the internet in the presence of an operating system it can no longer derive revenue from will give it AIDS.

It's still working and it still will be working faggot...

How are you using Steam though?

Why would I need to use that shit?

Why do you have a shortcut for Steam then?

Firefox 52 ESR isn't that ancient, you can still use it, along with stuff mentioned. Plus it's the only option if you want to use HTML5 YouTube.

Would the DOS run astronaut shit be more reliable than some modern software? I have the impression that it would be but don't know enough about this stuff. Just by the fact that it's probably less complex and the more complicated something is the greater the chance of something fucking up.

If the DOS run "astronaut shit" itself was written properly, maybe.

What are the nips going to do?
Don't they still function for the most part on XP?
Or is that mostly a maymay?

I've heard NASA actually has, or at least used to have, very strict controls on mission critical code. I've heard that they, or at least that they used to, formally validate life critical code. But that's going off my memory from reading Jow Forums a few years ago. I remember, at the time, reading a publication from NASA about it, but I couldn't find it just now.

You must be at least 18 years or older to post on this website.

you suppress auto updates using a steam.cfg file, it still works to this day even with multiplayer games on xp

No it's not. Have you ever heard of New Moon, or Basilisk? Both are currently maintained web browsers for XP.

Someone archived an old build that doesn't check for updates.

msfn.org/board/topic/177125-my-build-of-new-moon-temp-name-aka-pale-moon-for-xp/

they’re going to continue not giving a fuck like everyone else, only Jow Forums retards were running the autistic POS terminal version to begin with

you have no idea what you're talking about