Please, guys! ... The purpose of this email list is to aid development of WSJT and its sister programs. It is not the place for discussing relative merits of different OS varieties and versions.
— 73, Joe, K1JT ________________________________ From: Joe via wsjt-devel Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2025 3:32 PM To: Doug Breault, Sr.; WSJT software development Cc: Joe Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Windows compatibility WSJT-X and improved Yeah and not use 90% of my programs. On 5/1/2025 2:28 PM, Doug Breault, Sr. wrote: Switch to Linux already! ;) On Thu, May 1, 2025, 3:25 PM Joe via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto: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><mailto: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 ________________________________________ German Amateur Radio Station DG2YCB Dr. Uwe Risse eMail: dg2...@gmx.de<mailto:dg2ycb@gmxde> Info: www.qrz.com/db/DG2YCB<http://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 _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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