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Originally Posted by JWPearson
It is totally unreasonable to drop the ability to install or update Calibre under Windows XP. There are hundreds of thousands of XP users that are not goin g to upgrade Windows from XP because of having to do a total install of every application on the new Windows.
XP support from Microsoft may have ended but XP is still a very good OS and will continue to be used into the future.
The Calibre team should figure out why the new version fails and fix the problem rather than abandon many thousands of loyal users that have stayed with Calibre all these years.
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The thing is, the Calibre team cannot fix the problems. The problems exist in Qt5 and Qt5 fixes issues existing in Qt4. Is Qt5 perfect? No. But it's better then Qt4. There comes a time when software has to move on and Kovid has chosen to move to Qt5 because it solves problems that Qt4 has. I'm also betting once things are a bit more stable, support will be less of an issue.
Qt5 is unstable under too many installations of XP. Can you imagine the support nightmare?