Re: [Inkscape-devel] Roadmap for Inkscape 0.93 on Windows - GTK3, devlibs, MSYS2 and support for Windows XP
May I suggest migrating to Ubuntu? You may actually have some luck running those older programs in WINE. Just a thought. :)
Dosbox still runs my very first Pascal programs!
You may also find good open source replacements for your old software too, and probably for free!
Sorry to hear about your troubles with Windows 10. If you must have Windows, maybe win 7 would be better at this point.
You could also try running XP in a VM in Ubuntu, then you could have your cake and eat it too. :)
-C
On 27 Feb 2017 11:20 a.m., "alvinpenner" <penner@...1856...> wrote:
If they are still on XP, they can still use older builds of Inkscape.
People stuck on XP must surely be used to new software not working on their old deprecated OS by now.
Actually in my experience the situation is the exact opposite. Windows 10 has not offered me access to any new software that is of any interest to me. Instead it has forced me to abandon two old, legacy, pieces of software that I had used daily for about 15 years on XP, and now can no longer use because they are 16 bit software. So the switch to Windows 10 has been a significant step backwards in terms of functionality and in terms of user-friendliness. Windows 10 is incredibly unfriendly when it comes to simple things like copying files, and it is full of bugs and glitches. I upgraded to Windows 10 because I was literally forced to do so, not because I wanted to, and certainly not because it offered me anything that I was actually interested in.
Alvin
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You may actually have some luck running those older programs in WINE. Just
a thought. :)
Well, in actual fact, I have found some (64 bit) replacements for these old legacy programs. So I suppose it is fair to say that I have moved on. However, I am now faced with the fact that I do a great deal of switching back and forth between two machines, one of which is an old (32 bit) XP, and one is (64 bit) Win10, and the switch itself is sometimes painful. My main point was simply that change for the sake of change is not necessarily a good thing. Witness, for example, the fact that the new gtk3 gui in Inkscape trunk is virtually unusable, and will probably take years before it is ready for public consumption. (And incidentally this type of work, fixing a gui, is extremely boring, which means it will be hard to find people who are interested in fixing it.) And witness the fact that we have replaced the old Windows btool compile system with CMake, which is very clumsy to use, takes about 10 times longer to compile than btool did, and is virtually impossible to keep in sync if you start messing with the code base, fixing bugs and so on. These problems can all be dealt with, if one has patience, but they make life so complicated that one is, finally, tempted to just give up in frustration.
Alvin
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Luca
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