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Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 (fireborn.mataroa.blog)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Windows XP wasn't even secure and reliable, at the time. At this point it's indistinguishable from keeping Windows 95 on a full tower from Gateway because nothing else supports your vintage scanner. You're one step from the tech-priests waving incense as a ritual against crashing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a WinXP notebook for my ADF scanner (works with SANE but strangely every page is shifted by a few lines, so if you scan a lot of stuff it becomes unusable)

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