Hi
I did read today above answer, and i am astonish about some parts of the answers:
milomak wrote:if you had kept whatever debian distro was around at that time of xp, it would be the same no?
the backward compatibility from M$ is high! M$ is about his risponsability is aware of its responsibility to millions of developers who do not work for M$, but for themselves, or for an employer or customer! Enterprises will not permanently reinstall their software («do never touch a running system!»). Your argument is absolutely wrong...
milomak wrote:i mean take adobe air. it must be years since that was needed at all.
even the didactic software «scratch2» makes this necessary in thousands of schools otherwise you have to stay with Windows! Adobe did not retire the rights to use the already published releases of air but only decide not to continue to develop them for Linux as far as I know... Thousands for schools with often 250 ... 1000 students, they are a lot of people deprivate by Linux of NEEDING tools being fully accessible and normal in Windows! Yes, of course, their is an online version. But how will use in classroom open internet

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stevepusser wrote:I can also run i386 Linux software on my 64-bit system, as well as a lot of 32 and 64 Windows software using Wine and more using virtual machines, so I still can't see the problem.
as computer freak and intensive forum user, you can make without toil a lot of operations not being possible by other, and absolutely not in the environment of a classroom in the education from children and young people!
The world population have soon 10 billion people (milliard?). an enormous quantity has yet no screen excepted TV. an enormous quantity would find old hardware if it would be usable but irresponsible developers and decision-makers remove the necessary compatibility!
And no reason at all: i386 is now a separate part of Linux so or so! You need in all case a compatibility kit and no need the children has to wear the same size as adult people: the i386 compatibility kit can stay as it is or was at the time of Jessie. It is a matter of intelligence of developers and decision makers (and not how can I move this unseemly thing away from me)!