Interesting Commentary On Microsoft Windows' Rise- And Fall

[Judge]

So far perhaps the best explanation of seeing the rise and fall of Microsoft Windows, and how it has systematically (and shamelessly) sold out their customers.

And it appears to only be getting worse:

 

[NB79]

i have windows 7 still for games, my cpu is from 2008, and i was thinking in upgrading before, but
prices are crazy now, good games release are more rare than before.
And people says electronics are made now with 'planned obsolescence' which makes them break.
I would try other OS, if in not were i like games mostly old and i am afraid linux etc couldn't run them.

 

[Judge]

i have windows 7 still for games, my cpu is from 2008, and i was thinking in upgrading before, but
prices are crazy now, good games release are more rare than before.
And people says electronics are made now with 'planned obsolescence' which makes them break.
I would try other OS, if in not were i like games mostly old and i am afraid linux etc couldn't run them.

Perhaps some of our members who run old versions of Windows virtually through Linux can weigh in...

 

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Perhaps some of our members who run old versions of Windows virtually through Linux can weigh in...

And people says electronics are made now with 'planned obsolescence' which makes them break.

Computers have become faster by making all the components smaller so they can jam more switches in to a single processor. Smaller components means smaller wiring which means it doesn't need as much electricity to overheat it and burn it out. The more often your computer gets hot the sooner it's going to die.

I would try other OS, if in not were i like games mostly old and i am afraid linux etc couldn't run them.

The great majority of games made after about 2003 will run just fine in Linux. It's a little bit hit and miss though. There's a few different ways you can load games in Linux.

If you're an online player then you'll want to install Steam and play your games through that.

If like me you're an offline player then you're better off just installing the games directly in to Linux once you have installed the Wine compatibility layer. That's how I play most of my games, completely offline and sandboxed, no internet access at all.

Some very old games from the 90s and earlier require the specific graphics hardware from back in that era, for those games I run a PC emulator that has Win98 installed in it.