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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's used for industrial applications like manufacturing and whatnot, stuff that really doesn't need to be updated regularly since the software is effectively legacy.

Hell, we've got tools from the 2000s still running Win2k.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Well I mainly want it to keep my VR headset running which nobody can get working in linux.

One of these days I'll replace it and make sure the new one can run on linux, and then I won't have much keeping me on windows anymore.