UCyborg

Some information might be outdated since a lot could happen in 3 years since it was published.

I've setup a Manjaro Linux with KDE desktop environment back in July on my desktop PC and out-of-the box, the desktop is quite laggy (mouse response, window animations fluidity). I've skimmed through this topic, changed KWin rendering backend from OpenGL 2.0 to OpenGL 3.1 and created the executable script that sets certain environment variables at ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/kwin.sh: #!/bin/sh export KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=0 export __GL_YIELD=USLEEP export __GL_MaxFramesAllowed=1 Seems better, though there are still moments when window animations are choppy. None of the options above are what I'd consider radical. Reading about triple buffering it doesn't sound like something I'd want considering the input lag and the fact that it's system-wide settings. ForceFullCompositionPipeline seems ever more of a mystery in this context...I have 2 screens simply running at their native resolution and 59,93 Hz and 60 Hz refresh rates, so nothing special here. The GPU is NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti, using proprietary NVIDIA driver version 465.31 that came with Manjaro. Just curious about others' experiences and thoughts in the similar situation (KDE with enabled compositor + proprietary NVIDIA driver).

https://manu.ninja/25-real-world-applications-using-webgl/ PS: This is the worst browser for WebGL on XP. roytam1's K-Meleon is probably the best, though if it still lacks certain other JS features that may be needed, some stuff may not work with it.

@Gansangriff I figured that out much later. I don't remember tinkering much with Win9x settings back then. A family computer ran Windows 95 at the time, that period seems to have passed rather quickly. Then we went straight from Windows 95 to Windows XP (on a new computer). A whole new world of possibilities opened then. I only dug deeper into appearance when Windows 8 came about.

Wonder what you found. Can't imagine how it would work since each app only has permission to its own data folder. Not sure how much extra the permission to access storage grants, it might only be enough for normal access to files on internal/external storage. If root access was possible in recovery mode, image of the data partition could be taken, mounted on the PC and then any tool that can scavenge ext4 file system could be used and relevant data files found intact, if you're lucky.

There are late DOS games that are quite demanding for its time. And in at least some cases also to play in DOSBox because emulating a slow CPU is still a PITA, perhaps less with a Core i7. I don't have experience hacking DOS executables, though for Win32 stuff, it's possible to bake in the precise frame limiter. For the end user and the case when patched executable isn't available, RTSS is the easiest solution, though the game must use supported rendering API, so it leaves out earlier software rendered stuff and games using DirectDraw interface version earlier than 7. At least the last time I checked, DDraw7 was the earliest for which RTSS implements hooks. Was the opposite for me. I considered it a breath of fresh air as the grayness of classic 9x appearance has depressive effect on me. Might as well go to the cemetery.

Just some IT guy had it on his office PC. The main stuff was either on 10 or Server 2016/2019. Not much visual difference between them and I don't always pay attention to whether Server Manager is there or not. It wasn't at IT company, they do things with aluminium actually.

Didn't think I'd see it in the corporate environment so soon.

Saw my first Windows 11 in the wild today.

Upstream's cubeb library update caused issues for some people, so they reverted to older build. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27274 Is it a coincidence they deleted WinMM backend right in this particular timeframe? I think it was inevitable either way given their philosophy.

Oh c'mon, it's just an innocent word. I don't see how it doesn't accurately describe preferences of the folks here in the context in which it was used. Communicating in this world seems to be getting increasingly difficult since it happens so often that someone is offended so easily. It's undeniable that the most forum sections are more or less deserted and that the place is a famous hangout for those that prefer running older OS, despite the forum structure hinting at the more balanced discussion ground. A'ight, I'm off before I'm convicted of murdering someone with words.

I have another theory specific to MSFN - they left because of lack of variety of actively discussed topics or because they're not old OS fanatics.

Maybe this would help: https://beebom.com/how-uninstall-microsoft-edge-windows-11/ I don't see them putting an option in GUI. That was another era. We didn't have internet connection at my home until 2004.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general_beta_gog_galaxy_2.0/gog_galaxy_crash_on_start_windows_8_x64

Our search engine overlords have stopped supporting Chrome for Android 4.4.4 (KitKat) in 2020. They're going to block older versions from signing to Google services soon. Other apps tend to follow and if they're connected to certain service or any other reason exists that user wants an updated version, it's not possible to use it, so device is then considered outdated. They're usually not upgradeable very far, if at all.

Sony Xperia E3

I eventually forgot I wrote about it here, though I did eventually discover that flag, which indeed helped. Silly installer bug I suppose. Last time I checked, Chrome did it as well.

Makes sense since this card has Windows 10 drivers.

Basically, reading the requirements, if GPU comes with Win10 specific driver (WDDM 2.0 <==), it'll work, but otherwise, I assume one is stuck with Basic Display Adapter. I know for certain Win10 can load WDDM 1.1 drivers. Direct3D 12 supports 11_0 feature level, so that allows driving graphics through D3D12 library on GPU that only supports features of D3D11, so 12 specific features aren't available then.

If anyone else finds the text rendering odd, this should help: https://winaero.com/how-to-enable-enhance-text-contrast-in-microsoft-edge/ Apparently compromises were made in Chromium code dealing with text rendering for cross-platform compatibility and Windows drew the short stick. I don't know where the information in the post above that the new behavior will be enabled by default in version 93 comes from, the blog post by MS says it should be in version 92 (where it isn't), which is is the current latest version. Maybe he tried one of the test versions and noticed it's enabled there.

As far as I'm concerned, it's always been bad. Very few see the reality for what it is, most deny it, so the sh!tshow keeps going.

The system is automated so after money is sent, it should generate the account on glass8.eu and send a thankful e-mail with a password to login to the site where a donation.key file can be generated. Subsequent donations send a thankful e-mail (without a password since account already exists) and increase the number of donation.key files that can be generated based on machine ID.

Half year later and my bank improved in some ways. They replaced debit cards with something more useful (Maestro->MasterCard). Taking credit MasterCard yearly subscription out of the equation, which was the only way to have MasterCard before, even if you didn't care about the fact that it's credit card, I wouldn't save with account management costs neither by switching to the bank I've been checking out half year ago. Anyway, back in January, I wrote them again, they reset something on their end and since then didn't have problems authenticating with HID Approve on Windows 10. To have a backup way to auth, I tried setting up HID Approve on Android, but couldn't activate it. So I ended up re-activating the bank's regular app. This... ...is not a problem anymore, so at least it's a bit more useful than just authenticator for web UI.

UltraViewer supposedly remains XP compatible.