Windows 11 won’t install those 25 year old programs anymore. Wine will.
I’m really sorry to do this, but 25 years ago was 2001.
Now that the painful part is out of the way, 32-bit software from 2001 should work in Windows 11.
Even XP software is in part not working correctly on current gen systems. Support since Win7 didn’t get better.
Oh, it should work and it will if you put all the files in the right places yourself by say installing it on wine and copying the changes to the wine system directories over, but starting in Windows 11 running the installer gets a deliberate “this program isn’t meant for this version of Windows” error.
Run the installer in compatibility mode, then run the application in compatibility mode?
Didn’t work. Application doesn’t even need compatibility mode to run. Running the app copied by someone else from their previous Windows 10 computer sorta works but didn’t find files installed to system directories. Windows 11 just deliberately refuses to execute the installer probably based on recognizing the old family of installer programs specifically.
The users wanted a new Linux laptop. I installed LMDE, showed them how to run the installer with wine. It made a menu item. Drag and drop from whatever the cinnamon file manager is doesn’t work, and there was no file association to open the program’s files. I added one that just opens them with wine and lets it figure it out. I also showed them where their wine c drive was.
After a few weeks they wanted to print to pdf as well as their printer from wine and I had them install cups-pdf
Narrator: but it doesn’t.
“Should” does a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. 🤣
Oh cool, let me install this software, what, it won’t install because it’s missing quicktime? Oh it needs directx 8 runtime? That could be a problem. Let’s advance the clock, 2004, that should be fine… What do you mean you can’t run .NET 1.1 applications and so that won’t run?
Ironically, wine is more likely to have a path to easily run those programs under Linux, but if you had a Linux binary from that era you’d likely have a hard time getting that to run, probably harder than the microsoft scenario. So old Windows software is more likely to run under Linux than old Linux software…
Brave to say something true but so controversial in a space like this
macOS, can I install this 2 year old program?
No, the architecture is no longer supported in this version of macOS
“no because the dev hasn’t paid us to certify it as safe so you’ll have to jump through 37 hoops in order to allow you to right click, hold options, and click open. THEN we’ll give you an option to install it”
Is this a LibreWolf on Mac reference, because I hate this so much about LibreWolf on Mac lol.
Not so much a librewolf reference as much as a “any app you download from the Internet” reference lol
I’ll have to try installing librewolf when I’m feeling frisky though
Windows, can I run this 25 year old software I just installed?
In the early 2000s there was this website called dll-files.com or something like that, and every time that error popped up (which happened a lot in the 90s and 2000s), you’d go to that website, download the missing file, and 99% of the time it would fix the problem. These days I’d advise against obtaining random DLL files from the internet but back then it was like magic.
Or you’d get lucky and some other program you installed happens to have the right dependencies. Just copy them to the application install dir or to
C:\windows\win32\and off you go.On Windows people should only be downloading software from the Windows repo and using Winget to install it.
Wine: Just choose from a big list of overwrites.
Initial release of
ddwas for Unix in 1974 and it’s still updated for use in modern systems.I used it just the other day and it was already installed.
“Old tools” does not mean obsolete or bad. It means tested, hardened, and reliable. And crucially, probably runs in a couple megabytes of memory, which you might need if the cost of RAM suddenly quintuples for no reason.
However you’re on Debian stable and the latest version of the package that came out 24 years ago is still too new.
At least does stable support Flatpaks now? Got an old T60 I might get out of retirement, because fuck buying a computer these days
What do you mean by “support”? Flatpak is in the official repository and has been for a while.
You may also consider the backports repository for common software such as office and maybe your DE/tools.
Otherwise, I’ve used a T60 with Libreboot myself for years and it still worked fine for general purpose stuff, but then the CCFL display lighting went dead. It’s not TFT, unfortunately, so they don’t last as long.
As in “does have a somewhat modern flatpak package version that won’t cause issues with stuff off flathub”
I’ll dig it up and try it, thanks!
And this is…bad? Or do you mean it’s lying?
I think this is just a really terrible use of this specific meme format. I have no idea exactly what OP was trying to get out with this. I’m still confused whether this was a good or a bad thing.
I wanted to do the cool neofetch thing all the femboys in thigh highs are doing. Shits already installed on mint. My boring ass win98 clone is doing the femboy thing no questions asked.
Hey. The cool transfems in thigh highs are doing it too.
