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On Thu, May 1, 2025, 3:25 PM Joe via wsjt-devel <
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I agree, My win 10 machine here can outperform 75% of available win 11
> machines ya can buy.
>
> but it can't use Win 11 because of the security crap it insists on having.
>
> let ME decide if i want the extra level of security.
>
> All Win 11 is a way for them to make everyone buy new stuff
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
> On 5/1/2025 10:57 AM, Larry Banks via wsjt-devel wrote:
>
> $$$ and upgrade difficulty, especially if the CPU is too old.
>
> Larry / W1DYJ
>
>
> On 5/1/2025 11:22, Greg Walls via wsjt-devel wrote:
>
> As a former IT Professional of 32 years, why would anyone be on an
> unsupported platform, especially when upgrades to Windows 11 are free? I
> wonder if these guys are still driving their first car.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 1, 2025, at 10:06 AM, Uwe, DG2YCB via wsjt-devel
> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi Andy,
>
> You are causing a lot of confusion with such half-baked statements. Like
> always, and for good reasons, the Windows installation packages for all
> WSJT-X Improved versions are being created using Qt 5.12.12. This gives the
> best possible backwards compatibility (down to Windows 7), as well as the
> rest results in terms of rendering the various controls (also when Dark
> Style is enabled). This tool chain has not been changed over the past
> months.
>
> As you know, we've spent many days of work trying to help you with your
> "special" setup on an old Windows 8.1. system. During these tests, you
> confirmed that all is working well on your Windows 10 computer. And no one
> else has ever reported similar issues than you with your setup.
>
> Please do me a favor and stop confusing others. If you don't understand
> why we invest months of work to offer a data set for Qt6 in addition to the
> existing Qt5 source code, then any further discussion about it here is not
> worthwhile anyway. Other OMs who know what this is for are very grateful
> for this work. And if at some point in the future you should buy more
> modern equipment (maybe even Linux-based), then you will be grateful to us
> one day why we were so wise and foresighted in 2024 and 2025 to develop the
> necessary source code for it and keep it up to date.
>
> 73 de DG2YCB,
> Uwe
> ________________________________________
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> Info: www.qrz.com/db/DG2YCB
>
>
> Am 01.05.2025 um 13:55 schrieb Andy Durbin via wsjt-devel:
>
> "Both Windows 7 or 8.x version support will not be available for Qt 6.
> Microsoft discontinued the support for both Windows versions some time ago,
> and as a vendor, we can no longer maintain support for these windows
> versions in Qt 6. Windows 7 (both 32bit and 64bit) was supported as a
> target in Qt 5.15 LTS and Windows 8.1 (both 32bit and 64bit) as a target in
> Qt 5.12 LTS. This means that we will not have 32bit Windows support
> available. Additionally, it will no longer be possible to create UWP 
> applications
> on Windows 10."
>
> ref - https://www.qt.io/blog/qt6-development-hosts-and-targets
>
> I have found that 2.8.0 improved is not compatible with Win 8.1 and no one
> has said that it works for them.
>
> Should the WSJT-X Windows compatibility statement be revised?  It
> currently states - " (Windows 7 and later)" which was true for 2.7.0 but
> may not be true if later official releases use Qt6.
>
> 73,
> Andy, k3wyc
>
>
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