this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago (7 children)

GNU/Linux:

  • Can I install this 20yo software?
  • Is already installed.
[–] tubbadu 81 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can I install this 20yo software?

user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

SUDO Can I install this 20yo software?

Is already installed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You guys are awesome!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

how about this driver for an obscure 20yo laptop's touchpad?

already installed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Had this exact scenario with an old flatbed scanner. No win10 drivers and it never had mac drivers. Ran without issue in up to date Mint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually once recently I had problems because the wifi driver (b43) for the Dell Latitude D505 (2004) wasn't in the live Boot environment (cause un-free).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

huh. Did you end up using a ethernet cable then?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you do echo "3 6 * p" | dc in a terminal it'll give you the result of 3x6, but the dc part of that is software that was written probably between 1969 and 1971.

[–] goodnessme 3 points 2 years ago

That is crazy and cool! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

there is nothing to do

[–] le_saucisson_masque 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know it’s a même but Linux isn’t that good for running old app that have a user interface. Old command line interface works perfectly but that’s mostly for developer.

windows make it available to everyone.

It’s one of the few things windows does better, might as well recognize it.

[–] dufkm 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Old command line interface works perfectly but that’s mostly for developer.

No. I'm comfortable with command line tools, and I'm far from being a developer. People used DOS etc. as well without being developers.

[–] le_saucisson_masque 2 points 2 years ago

True but time have changed. It’s like giving a diskette to a gen z, he doesn’t know what to do. People mostly aren’t used to terminal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Old Linux software usually has to be completed from source anyway (uhh the effort) which essentially makes it future proof

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Well, unfortunately there are sw inside windows that are even older