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When did y'all drop XP support?
Posted: 16 Jan 2023 20:51
by Katie Boundary
VLC 3.0.8 installs on XP with no complaints but 3.0.17 and 3.0.18 don't. I haven't yet tested all of the versions in between.
Re: When did y'all drop XP support?
Posted: 17 Jan 2023 10:28
by Lotesdelere
Re: When did y'all drop XP support?
Posted: 18 Jan 2023 13:11
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
In principles, VLC 3.0 doesn't increase requirements above XP SP3. But if some component (say Qt) requires a higher version, we're not going to block updates just for XP at the expense of everything else.
Strictly speaking, XP has been out of vendor support for years.
Re: When did y'all drop XP support?
Posted: 27 Jan 2023 08:38
by Katie Boundary
The vendor support argument has always been nonsense. XP was the last version of Windows that didn't suck. If enough software vendors got together and agreed to only support good version of Windows, rather than whatever was newest, they could force Microsoft to pull their heads out of their asses and make Windows good again.
Re: When did y'all drop XP support?
Posted: 28 Jan 2023 08:44
by Rémi Denis-Courmont
You're free to stick to XP if you think that that's the best OS version. Just stick with application versions XP.
The OS vendor support argument is perfectly valid as far as application vendor support is concerned. It's not like we are retroactively removing XP support from past VLC versions (and you can still download them from the official archives).
Also FWIW, as a system software developer, Windows XP absolutely sucks. Graphics driver are awful and the APIs are awfully dated and inadequate, while the audio HAL is nonexistent.
Re: When did y'all drop XP support?
Posted: 01 Jul 2023 02:18
by Katie Boundary
Windows XP absolutely sucks. Graphics driver are awful and the APIs are awfully dated and inadequate, while the audio HAL is nonexistent.
Issues that affect 99.99% of users are more important than issues that affect the other 0.01%
You're in the 0.01%.
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