legacyfan Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) as we all know support for windows xp is slowly growing thin over the past few year and updates are getting harder and harder to find nowadays even with update packs even browsers are harder to find so is windows xp still usable at all in 2023-beyond? Edited December 20, 2022 by legacyfan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legacyfan Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) part of my series (state of windows) Edited December 20, 2022 by legacyfan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, legacyfan said: ...so is windows xp still usable at all in 2023-beyond? Sure is, but even if the internet gets ugly, still good for old games and my music; but, I don't think that time is just yet, maybe a few more years and you can help us. I'll check out your other posting over there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerwin Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 My Windows 95 on a 486 Vesa local bus system is still perfectly usable, for playing MP3s (at 22kHz max) and playing Freecell. I expect it to remain usable for such until the capacitors die of old age. Then I will recap it, making it usable for another 20 years. Just a silly remark, for the vague statement of 'usable'. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasyAcquiesce Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Far from dead. If you pay attention in this documentary, you'll find Windows XP computers all over the place: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destro Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 If you want to just play games that run on it, its perfectly usable forever as long as theres hardware availible to run on. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 My Windows XP system runs like a charm without any errors. We have an interesting range of working browsers which are constantly being further developed, and a lot can be done on such a system. Windows XP is a perfect Windows OS for old, underperforming computers. I hope this OS will live forever. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legacyfan Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 thanks everyone for the input ive now decided to get an optiplex 9010 and install vista on it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 4 hours ago, AstroSkipper said: My Windows XP system runs like a charm without any errors. We have an interesting range of working browsers which are constantly being further developed, and a lot can be done on such a system. Windows XP is a perfect Windows OS for old, underperforming computers. I hope this OS will live forever. Me too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerceniol Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 On 12/20/2022 at 6:55 PM, FantasyAcquiesce said: Far from dead. If you pay attention in this documentary, you'll find Windows XP computers all over the place: Agreed! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekkaman Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 XP is a great OS. Specially the 64-bit version. But recently I realized something. My motherboard got busted. And in my search for motherboards for am3+ socket I don't know why but I was still expecting to find a new one in box at a good price. So finding the the hardware that supports it is the most difficult part. I guess you can run it virtually if you really want to but it's not the same. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansmuggler Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 As far as I can tell, the only concern in the coming years is the gradual dropping of 32-bit support in new software, but I don't really know of anything people use for XP that still gest updates that isn't specifically built with legacy OSes in mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinou_GS Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 There are millions around the world using windows xp and most of them using it as a main OS, the future will respond to you for me xp is good so far 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorba the Geek Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 The end of security updates for XP is not really a big deal. I am using the Atlantis Word Processor, OE Classic, and MyPal which are firmly committed to 32 bit XP compatibility for the time being, so the only thing that could force me to change to Linux is developments in codecs making media unplayable using DirectShow decoders. These do not appear to be in development anymore, so the latest DS decoder I have is the MPC-BE video decoder released in 2016. Also my VPN provider is gradually dropping support for L2TP, and I have not figured out how to make IKEV2 work under XP, which is a worrying development. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 11 minutes ago, Zorba the Geek said: The end of security updates for XP is not really a big deal. Agreed! I actually see it as a POSITIVE. Makes my OS forever-fixed "static" instead of forever-changing "dynamic". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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