Friday, April 16, 2010

Would anybody complain if...

...I removed the ability to run on Windows 2000 from DirectQ?

Put it this way: 1.8.3 was the first version in a long time that could run on 2000. Nobody complained during that time. Nobody.

Now, I fully understand that from an idealistic perspective running on Windows 2000 would be nice to have. But let's take off the idealistic hats for a minute or two and look at it from a purely practical perspective.

Does removing the ability to run on 2000 actually affect you? Or do you just think it might affect someone else? And do you know who that someone else is?

The OS we're talking about here is a business OS that was never really available for the domestic user and that was very quickly replaced (within 1.5 years) by XP. It's over 10 years old, which makes it almost as old as Windows 98.

What I'm looking for is one person who has Windows 2000 on their only machine and who regularly runs DirectQ on it. If I can find that one person I'll keep it.

4 comments:

Spirit said...

I regularly try to run DirectQ on Linux and it always says "bash: ./DirectQ.exe: Permission denied"???!?!?!


;)

Go for it!

gnounc said...

scratch 2000 : )

Chip said...

If scratching Windows 2000 means progress for DirectQ, then go ahead and do it. I don't know anyone using 2000 except me 7 years ago.

Go for it!

Anonymous said...

If you had asked this a year ago, that one person would've been me!