Why do you still use XP?

Thank you - just out of curiosity - did you go with the sysVinit version or the runit version? 32 bit or 64 bit?

https://antixlinux.com/download/

Good to see I'm not alone in my linux use because I was flamed a while back for doing such and compared to a criminal but I shall not drudge up the old posting ... better left be.
 
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For VM im using 32bit and I always use SysV init because its old and reliable. AntiX boots very quickly, so that entire runit stuff to make boot process faster by parallerizing init process seems pointless.

Point of warning tho, 32 bit web browsing starts to die.
This is ridiculus. FF constantly crashes after longer period of usage (like 30-40 min or more) because it runs out of VSZ (address space). Once it hit 3GB (basic web browsing start wth 2GB!!!) it will crash.

Still, its good enough, so I can browse some trash websides that does NOT work anymore on my old Palemoon :)
 
Sokrates said:
At some point this perverse trend must be stopped before the OS takes the lion's share of the system and relegates the users and their software to a dusty corner. I believe XP is that point.
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Seven years have gone in a blink of an eye, and that sinister prophecy of mine seems to have come true: from what I read of Windows 11 the Windows user has become a dispensable accessory of the computer, useful only to pay for the hardware and to provide some free marketable personal information :(

Would anyone ask me again why I'm still on XP?
 
I haven't used every flavor of Windows, but from those which I have dealt with, I think XP is the only one that they finally cured most of the bugs with.

MS still has a history of putting garbage on the market, and then waiting for the phone calls so they know which problems most customers are dealing with the most. Then, after several years have gone by they finally have customers reasonably happy with their old software. Which means it's time to stop supporting it, so folks think the world will end if they don't upgrade. Keep$ M$ in bu$ine$$.
 
I have two old computers that I still run Windows XP on. They both have Athlon XP CPUs on. These CPUs don't support SSE2 which is required for newer versions of Windows new than Windows XP. To clarify Windows 7 would work but newer updates the crashed the computer because they assumed SSE2 support. Worse yet after the crashes I had to use system restore in order to boot into Windows again.
 
I use XP because i respect two things - traditions and useful things.
New operational systems are creating for one sense - to take money from users. Much better for people would to create one operation system and fix bugs in her through the decades (actually, as i understand, Apple does it). But then salary in companies will small. If create newer and newer operational systems - people will pay, pay and pay.
But i am sure - if some thing works good, let it be.
Also i'm very old-fashioned person and i don't like changes. I used WinXP as my first OS, so why i cannot use it further? It works, and works good. I can watch movies on my computer, read the books, play some old good games. I know what means every shortcut, i feel peaceful.
Maybe someday i will more rich and will buy newer computer... but i will use him only for internet and for modern games maybe (not sure because mostly modern games are crap).
God bless those who supports traditions too.
 
Hi all! I am using XP because I still can. I have found Mypal 68, and I am able to get on most websites without any problems. Here it is 12/9/2024 and my 21 year old computer is still working great. I have two other PCs, one with win 10 and other win 11, but xp puts them both to shame, in my opinion.
 
Just to add into the conversation, I started using Windows XP on VM due to a CS 1.6 client. I got infected by a botnet (Blaster worm) while I was playing, so I decided to code Sentinel XP, an XP antivirus, which is what I am still doing. Windows XP is fast, neat and has many freeware and abandonware turned freeware programs which you can freely download and activate. I like these programs and use XP for almost everything I do offline. After the worm, without a proper AV + hardware firewall I will not connect to internet. Additionally, making things work for XP is fun and gives me new coding projects. I joined this forum due to need of help setting up my VM. Now I enjoy helping others among the passionate XP users out here who won't let XP die that easily and who care for privacy more than other windows version users.
 
cleverscreenname said:
How about forcing FF to run on less cores? 2, or even 1, that reduces memory usage. Have you tweaked FF settings to reduce memory or disk cache size?
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Are you saying to adjust the:

browser.cache.memory.enable;true

I've tried running with it set to false and its worse?

I do run arkenfox and betterfox but what would you suggest?

Thank you in advance :)
 
xperceniol said:
Are you saying to adjust the:
browser.cache.memory.enable;true
I've tried running with it set to false and its worse?
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Lol, I have never tried completely disabling memory cache, thanks for being the guinea pig! I have browser.cache.disk.max_chunks_memory_usage = 81920
browser.cache.disk.metadata_memory_limit = 500
browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size = 10240
browser.cache.disk.capacity = 16384
browser.cache.disk.enable = false
This, or any of my tracking protection addons, make some webpage tabs crash when they try to load a captcha (like eBay). I love it, it greatly amuses me, I'd rather close your captcha tab anyways and switch my time to something less filthy.
How large is your Windows paging file? I like to set a static size like 512mb and make sure it's defragged (contiguous) before enabling it. Windows will still auto-expand it past the maximum you set, except now it'll actually notify you!
 
cleverscreenname said:
browser.cache.disk.max_chunks_memory_usage = 81920
browser.cache.disk.metadata_memory_limit = 500
browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size = 10240
browser.cache.disk.capacity = 16384
browser.cache.disk.enable = false
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I have applied all your settings to Mypal 68.14.7b, Hydra (Basilisk fork), and Lun3r (Pale Moon fork) browsers and there is a notable difference already so thank you very much.

So these are my new settings.

user_pref("browser.cache.disk.amount_written", 55279);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 153600);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.filesystem_reported", 1);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.max_chunks_memory_usage", 81920);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.max_entry_size", 10240);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.metadata_memory_limit", 500);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.offline.capacity", 0);
user_pref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false);

Does that look right?
 
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Looks great! Ever since Win98 days with Internet Explorer defaulting to like 1.5gb (20,000 files?) of web cache on an 20gb IDE drive LOL....
browsers have always been caching such an insanely high load on local drives that it makes the entire browsing experience FAR slower than just loading from the network connection! Unless anyone is still on dial-up?

So it's deeply ingrained on me to always keep browsers on a small short leash when it comes to caching!
 
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