Ten years of Fedora

Posted Sep 24, 2013 15:40 UTC (Tue) by dashesy (guest, #74652)
In reply to: Ten years of Fedora by Neowin
Parent article: Ten years of Fedora

Try that fancy XP mode with an old database program that tries to save a file in C:
It seems to be successful, but you look in C: and it is not there, try to save again and it overwrites a ghost! a nasty OS level redirection to some secret vault, trying to increase security by hiding C: is only good for malware-happy old generation that is stuck with 80s OS.
XP mode rarely makes any useful application usable (really try some old game that needs XP mode to just run and notice the ugliness). If you do not mind the glitch there, I used to run a 8 year-old Fedora in a chroot and it worked great.
The fun fact is that there is no nasty OS-level hack (like XP copy/paste/redirection mode), but a clean and elegant forward-compatible design.