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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by layer8 on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:03PM (#32988362)
This is only true if the ecosystem doesn’t care about compatibility, so this is just a symptom of a deeper issue. Say what you will about Wintel, but the long-term compatibility of x86 and Windows still lets me run a lot of win32 applications written two decades ago without issues.
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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by BeFlatXIII on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @11:56AM (#32997069)
I bet that if I moved back to Windows, KatMouse would work just as well as ever—and it was already nearly a decade out-of-date when I stopped being a daily Windows user.
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