Hmm. Will have to give it a try. Just got a Steam Machine and was about to go futz with running the old launcher under proton.

Clever, but obviously not too curious 😉

At a certain point, this is silly because the robots will be able to slop out a buggy emulator in a couple days. When any motivated individual can build their own tools to do this (moral equivalent of 3d printing, but for software), it is a losing proposition trying to stop it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocomelia

I think I’ll continue to enjoy my pseudonymity for the time being. Besides, I could link you to some rando’s modules, claim to be that person, and you’d have no way of verifying anyhow since this nick has no resemblance to the handle I used. But let’s just say, I shipped well-tested, thoroughly documented modules with very high “kwalitee” used by fortune 100 companies.

Processors change? Non-sequitur. Spectre an its ilk arrived on the scene at least a decade after MS had developed a reputation for shipping shit code.

Libraries become deprecated or vulnerable? Non-sequitur. Whose libraries? Who deprecated them? Remember, this is a company that personified Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. If they picked shitty vendors for libraries and did no due diligence on that source code, why are the externalities foisted upon users? Also, libraries don’t “become vulnerable” through some magical process. Either the bug was there from the beginning, or a shitty change was introduced and not caught.

Design paradigms shift? And this is an excuse for writing shitty code? I don’t buy it.

New integrations require new code and that means taking into consideration the new shape of the system. Sounds like they did a really shitty job of that and they make it the user’s problem.

Should we blame the old house builders for using asbestos? Unequivocally, yes. Those shitheads knew or should have known. Don’t believe me? Here is a handy link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169500224003623

Do note the decades between when it was understood the shit was dangerous and when the decline as a building material happened.

So, no, MS still does not get a pass.

Go ahead, bro. It’s on CPAN.

Why did they write such shit software in the first place? No, they don’t get off the hook.