

ARDOUR FOR WINDOWS XP DRIVER
Though it was supposed to be unsupported, dangerous and broken, I've been using it on and off for a month (and as my daily driver for the last couple of days) and I'm not only having an okay time with it, but it turns out that almost everything I use computers for, I can do on XP. Today, I'm one of those 1%, as I'm using XP to write this article. Multiple factors that this could be attributed to come to mind, such as the high prices of new computers, unwillingness to "upgrade" old computers that run just fine, poverty, or simply stubbornness. It's been more than 20 years since XP was released and yet it's still used by around 1% of computer users, rounding up. What other system has ever had the privilege of being supported for so long? When one considers all this, it's no surprise that people of a certain age would have fond memories of Windows XP, as weird as that might sound. To convince oneself of this, it's easy to think about the games it can run natively: decidedly retro stuff such as DOS games and Age of Empires sixth generation gems such as the GTA 3D trilogy and Half Life 2 popular 2010s games such as Portal 2 and Metal Gear Rising Revengeance and stuff that was released literally last year such as Minecraft 1.16. Windows XP is one of those things that lie right at the dividing line between retro and modern.
