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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Two ssds is when you need to run stuff on windows that requires the bare metal.

    Windows needs to be contained, controlled and told who is the boss, I suggest using Tiny11 or MicroXP in a VM for stuff that can't run in wine.

    [–] Boxtifer 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Firefox stopped supporting XP in 2018 so it's not too long ago that it was still usable.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    6 years was "not too long ago", eh? Right this way grandpa, let's get you back to your rocking chair

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Okay it's long for people where it's 6 years ago they learned to tie their shoes.

    Gramps here still thinks LOTR is a recent movie.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

    I've been in tech since 2003 in some form or another, I'm right there with you in thinking XP feels recent. My daughter was 2 in 2018, so it's definitely felt super quick to me too.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    ok so technically, the 2018 support was post wannacry? I want to say. I dont believe they totally supported it up until quite a few years prior to that.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I was struggling to find the newest XP related news to prove my point, it was the best I could do.

    By 2018 XP had been replaced by Windows 7 for several years.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

    yeah. Win 7 was released in like 2009? Win 10 was 2015.

    Win xp was probably discontinued the same time as win 7.

    [–] this_1_is_mine 9 points 8 months ago

    Micro xp... I got that to run on a Intel 400mhz laptop with 32mb of mainboard soldered sdram chips. Nothing like a a operating system under 200mb installed with a GUI.