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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You can get Windows 7 Professional and run XP in a VM or you can get Windows 10 and dual boot XP.
But whatever you do, you need to dump XP as you'll be left farther and farther behind.
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Jon, you need to realize people's reasons for keeping XP are their own. The fact that those reasons aren't very compelling to you, don't make those reasons any less valid.
Your "Dump XP" advice/campaign is pointless and unhelpful to those who are clearly not ready to do so--whether for reasons of workflow efficiency, hardware incompatibility, sheer nostalgia, or otherwise. They know what they're doing. They're not hanging on because "they didn't know" and need reminding.
I'm actually with AlanHK on this. I hate that free, opensource Qt projects are basically being forced to leave perfectly functioning OSes behind. Because to continue to support them AND look forward creates double the work for their maintainers. Not to mention not being able to avail themselves of important bug fixes in later versions of Qt by sticking with a version that's compatible (without jumping through massive hoops) with older systems.
But it's part of the problem with trying to maintain cross-platform compatibility with three different, and constantly evolving, platforms. Qt is the glue that makes that particular magic work. So something's constantly gotta give to accommodate it, unfortunately.