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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Desktop - Linux - Yes, likely. If not, here's a flatpak
Desktop - Windows - Maybe it still runs in a compatibility mode?
Desktop - iMac - Here's an emulator, good luck.

Mobile - PostMarketOS - Yes, likely. If not, here's a flatpak
Mobile - Android - Maybe? Try it and see if you get permission denial
Mobile - iPhone - Fuck you, no.

[-] dan@upvote.au 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Windows is pretty good with backwards compatibility, probably the best out of anything. I can run Visual Basic apps I wrote in the early 2000s on Windows 11 and they still run fine. Some old 32-bit games work fine too. You can even run some 16-bit Windows 3.0 apps on 32-bit Windows 10 if you manually install NTVDM through the Windows features (it was never ported to 64-bit though)

Linux is okay for backcompat but I'm not sure an app I compiled 20 years ago would still run today.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Tell that to video games, which constantly need a compat mode enabled

[-] dan@upvote.au 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 10 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.

[-] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

Wait, flatpak works on PostMarketOS?

[-] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Yep! It's the default on things like phosh and gnome mobile for packaging apps

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