[texworks] Call for Help: Testing
Philip Taylor (Personal)
P.Taylor at Trezaise.Uk
Thu Feb 15 13:36:49 CET 2024
Dear Norbert —
> please don't bother people just because you use an outdated and
> unsupported system.
Both outdated and unsupported, yes, but still in widespread use [1],
both because some specialist software will run under nothing later, and
because some (like I) prefer its professional GUI to the later "Noddy"
versions.
> You can adjust the GUI that it looks like Windows 7. Don't complain
> about things that can be adjusted, and you are just too lazy to do it.
Not "too lazy", Norbert, I simply do not have the time to undo the
mischief that Microsoft has wrought
> Specially for you, here it is
> https://www.preining.info/TeXworks-Windows7.zip
> I will remove it in 24h.
You are a gentleman, Sir. Downloaded and saved.
> And please stop stealing developers time with your hopeless
> retro-computing device requests.
"Stealing", Norbert ? Quite the opposite. I seek to /help /the
developers by testing the latest releases whenever announced; if I
cannot do so because "nightly.link" is trusted neither by either of my
browsers or by Malwarebytes, then it is my /duty/ to report this fact.
Just as I would if I found that I could no longer download the latest
version of TeX Live.
[1], more than 3% of all Windows installations in January of this year —
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide.
At that time, Windows held a 29% share of the operating systems market,
compared to Linux's mere 1.51%, and beaten only by Android, which of
course runs primarily on mobile telephones and television sets. As
reported at July 20, 2023 on earthweb.com
<https://earthweb.com/windows-users/>, "there are still an estimated 200
million devices globally that are running on the earlier versions of
Windows, most of these are reported to be using Windows 7".
--
/Philip Taylor/
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