Supermium

Nice wish for a perfect world, but - who should maintain that? For what audience? With FOSS you are always free to do it by yourself. Could be a nice benefit for the few people with this usecase. But don't expect that work from anyone else. Resources are ultimately limited in one or another way.

Always free to do it by myself, you say? Oh, riiiiight, that's a pretty darn good idea... except that NOT everyone IS born knowing how to code, to draw, et cetera NOR they have the SAME learning capabilities, IQ, et cetera as the developers. After all, we all have our own limitations, let alone our real-life issues and the lack of free time... and no offense, but I felt a bit offended now because not only you ARE disrespecting and disregarding everyone's limitations, their real-life issues, and their lack of free time, but you ARE presuming that I want to be spoonfed! How would you like to be in my shoes and experience how "delightfully wonderful" my life is--no, it isn't. What? Are you hoping that I'll go off-topic again and start telling you how horrible my worthless life is right now, aren't you?!

On top of that, I'm not the one who asked about making Supermium portable in the first place, and there was already a "No, no, we're not doing another portable Chromium-based browser." excuse. Y'know, you guys being unduly pessimistic and that sort of defeatist attitude won't get anyone anywhere--nothing will change until something changes!

And while I loved my Win98 installation at the time it was still running (that's decades ago), it would be a complete waste of resources to still support it only for my favour... Ok, that's kind of an extreme setting, could have thrown in my old Amiga, Sinclair or C64 times, but essentially, it's the same thing.

You can only blame that on Microsoft for their "everlasting-OS-updating", "constant-OS-upgrading", and "OS-support-dropping" antics, not us! Y'know what? Check out this epic post by LoneCrusader (a MSFN Moderator who stated these following words), and see if you understand what/how I feel:

This attitude (prevalent most everywhere I look online these days) that it's OK to force, browbeat, insult the intelligence of, shame, chide, or in any other manner "push" users of any product to give it up for something newer just because someone else says it's better is a cancer, pure and simple. I'll bet that most people pushing this drivel would be deeply offended if say, someone told them their political views were wrong and that they should change because someone else says so. Too many people today are willing to sing the praises of freedom until that freedom applies to something they don't like.

Yes, Microsoft has a right to change their products and/or change their business philosophy or whatever. But as far as I am concerned they have a moral obligation to NOT WILLFULLY make it more difficult for users of previous products to keep those products operating. Said users paid for those products, and the fact that some time has passed does not make those users somehow obligated to give up something that works perfectly well and buy something else because Microsoft says so. Don't want to support it any longer? Fine. But don't start putting roadblocks out for those older systems intentionally.

This is the main root of the problem that many of us have with Microsoft and many other software/tech companies. It's not what they choose to do, but how they go about doing it. So they want to release a new operating system? Fine. Release it, and if it's really better than what users already have then people will begin to move to it of their own accord. Where the problem arises is 1)when they start pushing FUD garbage about how suddenly you will become vulnerable to this or that catastrophe simply because you haven't chosen to move on; 2)when they use their "influence" to push other companies and products to no longer support an older system; and 3)when they start "manipulating history" to remove information or files relevant to older products, thereby making it more difficult to keep the older systems running (which once again were paid for, and the fact that time has passed does not invalidate this). Very few things make me angrier than when I follow a link to Microsoft's site that is supposed to lead me to some documentation or update for an older system and instead I get some garbage like "We're sorry. This page/update is no longer available. Update to Windows 10 today! It's up to date, fast and secure!" My response? Sure. When .... freezes over.

Unfortunately, my charisma sucks and I'm not in a really good mood to go on a lengthy debate--I have better things to do (like tending to my poor mother who suffered a stroke in 2012 and she can't talk nor move her right arm), so why not go over there and read the whole thread?

Btw. you could stick to your old setup as long as it is running, just don't expect updates forever.

In case you haven't noticed, I AM using a gaming laptop (if you must know, it's a Lenovo Legion), therefore it's NOT an old setup... and didn't I mention earlier that I'm using Linux Mint? Please re-read my post carefully... and also check my signature--it ain't there just for show. Lastly, I'm not expecting anything--I KNOW pretty DARN WELL how things will play out in the long run. Microsoft will be releasing Windows 12 in the future, and then 15, and then 20, and then God-only-knows-what-is-next... oh, and maybe there will be even a 128-bit or 256-bit! And then where will you be if you can't keep up the pace anymore? In the same boat with the rest of us. Well, it's like they say, "Someday that attitude is going to come back and bite you. Hard.".

Long story short, just because you can do something doesn't mean that everyone else can, let alone do the same. Limited resources, my boot! That's a poor excuse imposed by Microsoft just to force everyone to obliviously follow their ways like sheep. Well, if the resources are so limited, then why don't you go ask Win32 (the Supermium developer) about how he succeeded in porting the 122.0.6261.85 version of Chromium and successfuly made it work under Windows XP SP3 (and Windows 2000 is planned to be supported in the future) while everyone else failed?