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Happened to me multiple times (lemmy.zip)

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[–] dan@upvote.au 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The fact that a compat mode exists means that Microsoft put effort into backwards compatibility. Windows even emulates some old bugs for old popular apps that depended on them. I don't think any other OS does that.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I don’t like Microsoft Windows at all, but you are absolutely right about doing a good job with backwards compatibility.

Linux isn’t so backwards compatible, but with much of it having open source code, you can often compile it again yourself—tho having been written in a language that offers good backwards compatibility also helps.