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Wayland didn’t kill Linux desktops, but it did expose their weakest assumptions [EDIT: Warning, article likely written with AI assistance] (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People use windows because it has decades of backwards compatibility sort of.

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 23 points 1 week ago

That should be:

People ~~use~~ used windows because it ~~has~~ had decades of backwards compatibility sort of.

Nowadays: it has current compatibility sort of.

Microsoft is a mess now, so it's no surprise that their current Windows version is also a mess.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

For the most part they just didn't update.

See XP usage.