Any out there running Windows XP in 2024? (ani.social)

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I'm curious what you've been doing with it, what workarounds and fixes you've had to do over the years?

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[-] otherbarry@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

Something like that is more likely to work if it's the same exact hardware, an XP image applied onto a totally different system is likely going to BSOD when all the current drivers it has installed suddenly stop working. And XP being XP, you're not going to find new drivers for new hardware.

A lot of these XP machines running other hardware also have their own specific drivers and long unsupported proprietary middleware installed that won't transfer onto new systems easily.

But I do agree with you on the disk image, if only the hard drive on that XP system dies then that's an easy fix. Worst case OP would have to hunt around for an IDE drive if that desktop is particularly ancient.

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