Regardless of which party anyone agrees with, this is a forum dedicated TO and/or FOR Windows XP, not against it.
To recommend someone use something unrelated to XP, simply because XP is XP, is a detractor and a nuisance, and unproductive and deconstructive.
I have no authority here, nor do I need any; but please refrain from such behavior.
My web wanderings point to constant though minute (as in where the XP topic is discussed) XP interest growth. And there are many more people besides RoyTam1 and Feodor2 keeping XP alive in functionality.
(BTW I also run 3 9x machines that do commercial offline tasks)
I only use XP online, and have not yet been blocked by anyone (and some are serious security sites). I will add conjecture that social media sites (where the incompatibility complaints seem most voluminous) in general and especially those sites that aggressively corral people into controlled digital gulags are ample reward to those whom are misguided enough to use them.
I also surf 100% "clean" so no sympathy for those who would soil their cognition with porn/dark web (your choice of poison here____).
I am currently running 9 online & offline XP machines. I have a little mantra when I get in the mood: "Computer, do work for your master." I am the master, ALWAYS.
I run commercial audio and digital workstations, I do commercial hardware and software IT work up to and including Win 10*. All of my shopping, bill paying, banking, office work, research, entertainment etc. is done on XP. I spend more hours a day on computer than (Your name here____) and have since w98 FE.
No Virus or malware issues except the one time I had to learn the hard lesson...
. Back in the day.
XP has been "Berry berry good to me!"
I don't take offense to people who say to drop XP; most times it’s just an opinion. But I feel it good to express my opinion in opposition. Will XP sunset for me as 9x has by going 100% offline? Nothing is for sure. But it f**kin’ works now
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I only know what I know. XP works for me as a sober sane adult. No offense, but social media is for children whom don’t understand the big picture,
[unless they do and use social media as their slave- not my particular thing]
(let the flaming begin).
Sometimes people want to just show what they know because… who the f*ck cares!! That includes me glorifying XP and whomever wants to disparage it.
Thanks for reading!
Fun fact, I’m not that old though my avatar would suggest I am. Does anyone know whom the picture is of? Come on down the rabbit hole…
*I do not write code or compile (don’t know how) but I hack XP quite a bit and mostly done well. Client work is just the usual.