I rewatched Wall-E the other day. I forgot just how staggeringly good that movie is. How the hell does every single robot have their own personality. Not to mention how everyone that Wall-E interacts with ends up for the better, after a lil chaos, of course. I cried so many times. I’m 33.
I can almost guarantee you the oldest running windows PC is older than the oldest running linux PC due to software that can’t be re-compiled and brought to newer hardware/OS. Think hospitals, factories, etc… Granted, this argument does not really work in favor of windows.
Banks are still running Cobol programs written by Jesus on punchcards. But it’s not the same use case, Linux is mostly running on servers without a UI.
I just want to say thank you for that line, it’s beautiful. I’m absolutely going to steal it.
I mean yeah probably, someone somewhere has a PC-AT with MS-DOS and Windows 1 dating from the 80’s somewhere, while the first release of Linux was in what? 92? Somebody like LGR or Tech Tangents very likely has some old hardware running period software for history enthusiast reasons.
But let’s play this game: What is the oldest hardware currently in service running a currently supported edition of Windows, versus the oldest hardware currently in service running a currently supported edition of Linux?
But is it really Window’s fault when a software vendor decides not to support a newer Windows version, or a manager thinks cutting costs by not renewing a support contract is a great idea? I’ve seen plenty of software fail to compile on Linux because of, for example, slightly newer (or older) glibc versions being present. It’s not as if using Linux means software will magically run on every version out there.
That is the problem which containers initially were to tackle. Before I always ran into the issue that two programs need two different versions of a library.