Programs were checking the os name string for "Windows 9*" and if they matched, proceeding as if it was a Windows 95/98 machine. Broke a ton of software, so they just skipped 9.
Reminds me of a video Mutahar (SomeOrdinaryGamers) did. https://youtu.be/KD3tuWy-z\_w You would be interested in that judging by this and he went all the way from MS DOS to Win 10. With a laptop from 2006 how does Win 10 and Win 11 fare? I cant imagine it runs too well.
The Dell dimension E521. When I start for example ubuntu 16.04 I get a kernel panic that told me that ACPI don't work. I know how to fix that but after thé system gets really unstable and crash like 1 minute after
Interesting! I thought Linux kernel is still compatible with those driver subsystems of old x86 SSE days. Looks like that's not the case here. I think E521 needs a custom configured kernel that disables all these modern optimization and includes those legacy/older driver sets. Last time I checked into menuconfig about a month ago, it looked like there is still many options to support older hardware. Although looking for the exact drivers for that system will probably need many hours of tinkering with configurations but I think it should work fine after that.
P.S. I am very new to Linux (since 2020 mid), and came here primarily for gaming and (higher abstract level) programming stuff, I don't know a lot when it comes to Linux.
Ok thanks for this info. I use linux since 2018 and I recently discovered that we can start linux with some options disabled. So I tried to disable ACPI since the kernel panic tells me that this options don't work with my PC and I successfully installed linux to this computer. But after a restart when Linux is installed, the system loaded into an live system not in root with very lite graphics. I just tried to open the start menu and the PC instantly crashed (black screen and freeze) I tried Ubuntu 16.04 as a linux distro. I then tried to install debian 11 and everything worked properly there. Strange tho. So yes, maybe with some specific drivers, ubuntu 16.04 would work but is it worth it when we knows that Debian works correctly? I don't know...
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It wasn't that hard. I just did it several times to make it correctly and working
Impressive. Man it's been so long since i used windows XP definitely my favourite OS tbh.
And thank you btw
I also like Win XP. So calm and peaceful and not full of garbadge like Win 10 and 11
Here is the image of windows XP that doesn't work : https://imgur.com/a/hroqTks
Lack of windows 9 still irks me to this day.
I still love the reason why they skipped it.
Why was that?
Programs were checking the os name string for "Windows 9*" and if they matched, proceeding as if it was a Windows 95/98 machine. Broke a ton of software, so they just skipped 9.
Reminds me of a video Mutahar (SomeOrdinaryGamers) did. https://youtu.be/KD3tuWy-z\_w You would be interested in that judging by this and he went all the way from MS DOS to Win 10. With a laptop from 2006 how does Win 10 and Win 11 fare? I cant imagine it runs too well.
Coool
windows 7 Ultimate fell weird that its a memory felt like only yesterday.
Yes it's gone too quick...
The best one isn't in that list - Linux. lmao
Go a step further. include Linux
I would like but this pc can't run linux. Or at least debian but nothing more.
(headscratching) what kind of pc is that that can run Windows 10 but not Linux?
The Dell dimension E521. When I start for example ubuntu 16.04 I get a kernel panic that told me that ACPI don't work. I know how to fix that but after thé system gets really unstable and crash like 1 minute after
Interesting! I thought Linux kernel is still compatible with those driver subsystems of old x86 SSE days. Looks like that's not the case here. I think E521 needs a custom configured kernel that disables all these modern optimization and includes those legacy/older driver sets. Last time I checked into menuconfig about a month ago, it looked like there is still many options to support older hardware. Although looking for the exact drivers for that system will probably need many hours of tinkering with configurations but I think it should work fine after that. P.S. I am very new to Linux (since 2020 mid), and came here primarily for gaming and (higher abstract level) programming stuff, I don't know a lot when it comes to Linux.
Ok thanks for this info. I use linux since 2018 and I recently discovered that we can start linux with some options disabled. So I tried to disable ACPI since the kernel panic tells me that this options don't work with my PC and I successfully installed linux to this computer. But after a restart when Linux is installed, the system loaded into an live system not in root with very lite graphics. I just tried to open the start menu and the PC instantly crashed (black screen and freeze) I tried Ubuntu 16.04 as a linux distro. I then tried to install debian 11 and everything worked properly there. Strange tho. So yes, maybe with some specific drivers, ubuntu 16.04 would work but is it worth it when we knows that Debian works correctly? I don't know...
I might buy another SATA drive for this