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Originally Posted by Private
Qt 5 was initiated with v2. I've been running v2 on xp virtually daily since it came out, without a hitch or murmur. What's more Qt 5 is supporting xp32, according to their web site.
Why now this patriotic sucking up to the forces determined to kill xp usage by stealth, with brute force to boot. Would a warning of possible problems for some not have sufficed. Was it really necessary to crack the program to get what they want? And that for no reason other than a few complaints? I must say, this is fascism at its finest. It's unfortunate that calibre feels compelled to follow the Nancy trend.
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What.
This has nothing to do with some conspiracy to kill XP. This has everything to do with random problems (which are the very worst variety of bugs) on an unsupported (by its own editor) OS, and a lack of resources to track them down an deal with them.
Fascism?
What?
I have no idea what a "Nancy trend" is, so meh.
Now, some XP users have no problem, some have lots of problems. There's really no way to know what proportion of each is actually there, unless we spend resources we don't really have. But anyway. In both cases, there's some sort of strange idea out there about XP being a kind of jewel that weathered the last 13 years unscathed, and is worthy of all possible effort so that modern software can still run on it.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing, but let's be honest. XP is
not any sort of jewel. XP is
not, in any way, some kind of pinnacle of UI usability and stability we must cling to.
I'm the IT guy for a small (250 beds) hospital. I've maintained hundreds of XPs from vanilla to SP3 in the last 14 years, and still today I've got a hundred of 'em. And as a professional, I can tell you: XP is a maintenance nightmare. Yours works? Fine, good for you. Some of mine work fine, too. About twenty, thirty of them I don't really hear about.
That still means I've got eighty bloody relics that just won't leave me alone.
Don't talk to me about keeping XP around. It's been dying for the last five years,
let it do so.
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