I’m still using XP. Don’t want to cough up $thousands to upgrade a CAD program. No internet connection on that machine...
I bought two Window 10 laptops last year. One for the wife and one for me. I never could get used to mine so it is now a spare for when her computer fails.
Me I have a VISTA desk top and a Window 7 laptop.
They are getting old but as long as they boot up I will use them.
Don’t want to cough up $thousands to upgrade a CAD program. No internet connection on that machine...
I’m NOT a cad jock but did use Autocad often for work, mostly reviewing.
After retiring I used Libre cad occasionally.
The application was surprisingly good!
The documentation, difficult, at best.
But improving every time I look.
For new start from scratch drawings, not bad.
Going from dfx made my brain hurt.
BUT IT IS FREE! And MANY online sources for help.
Autocad can also be difficult, once I simply wanted to change the arrow size locally.
A very bad idea!!! And wasted a lot of time.
That was years back, might be easy now?
Installed a new 500 GB WD SSD and used Acronis to move everything off my old laptop to the "new" laptop. All of my apps, and even my stored passwords and book marks moved over perfectly using Acronis Universal Restore. Pretty amazing!
Will continue using Windows 7 and XP as long as possible, due to older programs that require it. I have the pro version with XP running as a virtual machine, which came with my original version of Windows 7. It also allows me to run Linux virtual machines.
The last time I made a HD upgrade, I had to re-register Win-7 with MS. This time, I didn't, which I haven't figured out why, yet.
I'm running half a dozen PC's with Windows 7.
The Windows version should run on XP.
You can play with it, cost nothing, look before you leap.
Free and open source.