>try to run a 16-bit application in 64-bit Windows 7 >"Unsupported 16-Bit Application" >"The program or feature BLAHBLAH.exe cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available."
>try to run the same 16-bit application in Windows 10 >"This app can't run on your PC" >"To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher."
Just when I thought Windows 10 was shit enough at hiding any information from the user, this happens. What is the point of this? Does the first error message make Windows any less user-friendly? If anything, it helps the user even more. For fuck's sake.
Oliver Torres
If you have a 16-bit application, there's really nothing you can do anyway. Confusing the less technically-inclined serves no purpose.
Carter Price
Yes there is. I can run it in DOSBox or in a virtual machine. But for the person who doesn't know it's a 16-bit application, they would have zero information to let them know the problem.
Isaiah Lopez
>try to run a 16-bit windows application in 64-bit Linux >it works
Isaiah Ross
> 16-bit application
kys
Hunter Anderson
>Does the first error message make Windows any less user-friendly?
Too many words,people don't like messages longer than a tweet.
Caleb Nguyen
O-M-G you are soooo right
I wish everyone was as enlightened as you or the faggots on Sup Forums
Carson Martinez
Yeah dude it's called light weight. Do you know how many bytes Microsoft can save by trimming down that string???
John Adams
This DOS games play amazing on GNU/Linux
Adrian Murphy
>XP >[u]My[/u] Computer
>Win7 >Computer
>Win10 >[u]This[/u] PC
Camden Baker
It literally says the same thing in less verbiage
Ayden Ward
Then install the 32 bit version of Windows and stop whining.
Jaxon King
its probably still there for compatibility reasons anyway
Elijah Green
>it's just an error description without the description something happened
Logan Thomas
One says the problem is with the OS. The other tells it's the architecture.
Yeah, totally the same.
Caleb Hill
Wine? Or some other shit?
Levi Cox
yep unlike windows, the NTVDM implementation in Wine is available to use in 64bit Linux (NTVDM being the system in 32bit windows NT that runs 16bit windows and DOS applications, which was removed in 64bit windows)
Anthony Gomez
I'm not whining about that. I'm whining about Microsoft hiding any information from the user.
Josiah Reed
Yep. Literally every old program Windows had and has runs better in wine than new windows os's
Andrew Jones
>Windows is for tech illiterates >OP is shocked by this install gentoo
