XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 30/10/2025 1:03 am, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > On 2025/10/29 11:0:20, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 28/10/2025 5:38 am, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
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   >>> The usual response is something like "why should we expend effort   
   >>> supporting old hardware" (especially if it requires different drivers).   
   >>   
   >> But 'they' aren't "supporting old hardware", they are supporting   
   >> hardware when it is current (5 years ago, 10 years ago, whatever), they   
   >> are DISABLING support for 'old' hardware.   
   >>   
   >> That is ... if they just left what they had THERE and then added stuff   
   >> for the NEW hardware, they could support both 'old' and 'new'!!   
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   > Yes, agreed.>>   
   >>> Some of us oldsters - and I don't know what proportion; it may be   
   >>> "shamed" into not speaking up (or buying new hardware) - wonder what is   
   >>> it that _makes_ hardware _old_; there's certainly a strong _suspicion_   
   >>> that "improvements" in OSs are mostly countered by the higher hardware   
   >>> requirements it needs. In particular, I have never understood why the   
   >>> advances in graphics processing have been "necessary" for anyone not   
   >>> into gaming and its consequent rendering needs.   
   >>   
   >> I can remember when keyboards *didn't* have "Windows" keys.   
   >   
   > I can remember the eightysomething (?) ones, with ten function keys in   
   > two rows of five on the left. But the 100/102/whatever _are_ an   
   > improvement! (Though I wish they'd put the arrow keys in a diamond [and   
   > perhaps with home/end/pgup/pgdn in one too, or around the first one].)>   
   >> Function Keys, sure. CTRL Keys, sure. Alt Keys, sure.   
   >>   
   >> But no "Windows" keys!! (and there's another key there but I don't know   
   >> what IT's called)   
   >>   
   >> Bottom line of keys on this keyboard ....   
   >> CTRL	Unknown	Windows	Alt	Space		Alt	Windows	CTRL   
   > If it's a laptop, probably Function (Fn),   
      
   It wasn't a Laptop but it was the Fn key.   
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   Daniel70   
      
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