People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/
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@fireborn I'll definitely be keeping track of this. Especially seeing as you fresh installed xp onto a system. That I have not done yet, and don't think I will in future. And hey, plus a million for grizley Gulch from Bavisoft. strait up, that was 1 of the very first audiogames that I ever played on xp. That and ten pin alley from PCS. I spent my entire 13th year on this earth glued to my system due to those games. Now as for accessabillity/useabillity between xp and 11? Apples to oranges, and the apple, that being xp, is way better, snappyer and faster. Seriously whenever I want a tech vacation, I just boot up my old dell laditude d820 and go to town, sans going online of course, I'm not that brave with my good ole systems haha. But truly, best of luck to you. You got this, you can do this :)