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Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare (www.lifewire.com)

submitted 5 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The oldest version of Win I used was 95 about 2 years ago on chromatography machine (I think hplc or gas).

It is to my knowledge still in use in the school because the software don't run on newer machines. The teacher told me that he don't know what will he do when it dies. It isn't really an issue on Linux.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It might be worth trying it in Wine. It has great support for older software especially.

Within the past year I have compiled new software for Windows 98.

In a lab environment, it’s important to strictly control software versions and understand thoroughly what gets updated. We also want the ability to use the same version of software indefinitely if it meets our needs.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago

I think that there are more issues like archaic connectors and stuff like that. You can't find new hardware with 30yo standard io.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

O&G still uses a lot of old versions as well. I remember back in the Win 7 days when I had to set up a 95 virtual machine and register a bunch of DLLs by hand plus set up a fake A: drive because even the 95 version of the software was garbage. A friend of mine did something similar but he got it working on the Win 7 machine somehow. I never understood how, but he left a script behind at the company he worked for because it needed to be reinstalled every time someone did something stupid and he didn't want to do it by hand.