Is there anyone still using “Win7” and “Win10”? Thank you for your response.
Will ‘haxe’ and ‘openfl’ continue to support ‘win7’ and ‘win10’? Thank you
I still have Windows 10 set up on a test-bed PC. It’s rarely turned on.
Windows 7 and Windows 10 are now officially unsupported operating systems (with the exception of enrolling in the paid-for Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates program).
I would expect Haxe would continue to run on Windows 7 and Windows 10 for a while yet. The question of support though is two fold:
- the Haxe / OpenFL executables, used to build a project
- the Windows supported targets (Neko / HashLink / C++ / C# / HTML5, etc)
Which of these are you referring to?
The first, the Haxe/OpenFL executables, impacts only the developer.
The latter largely relates to target audience / clients.
Are you seeking to continue to use Windows 7 / 10 for development, or are you seeking to provide support to users still using Windows 7 / 10?
(I love how we just don’t speak about Windows 8 
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I mean in terms of development, both of my computers were bought over 10 years ago, and the motherboard is still “DDR3”, which does not meet the requirements for installing “Win11”
I have two questions here,
Is everyone still using “Win7/10”?
Will ‘haxe/openfl’ continue to support Win7/10 development?
In Europe we got one more year of support for win10, it’s still my main OS
From what I read about win11… maybe I’ll just switch to Linux 
I can still run all my executables on my old win8.1 laptop ( @Bink 
), I don’t expect that to change anytime soon
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Solid option
Check out EndeavourOS.
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Why would you rather switch to “Linux” than use “Win11”? Can you tell me the reason? Thank you
You’ve provided a great answer yourself.
Would you like to be able to continue using your 10 year old hardware with the latest software and security updates, without having to pay a cent to anyone?
With Windows, you can’t.
With Linux, you can.
My reasons might be different to yours though. My main computers can run Windows 11. I even have legitimate Windows licences I can use with them, but I choose not to. Linux provides a superior development environment. The entire OS is built for development, with many powerful tools already available after a fresh install.
Linux also puts you in control, particularly with an Arch based distro such as EndeavourOS. The Microsoft / Apple experience is one that imposes a lot of decisions on you, whether you like them or not.
But, I would not encourage you to consider Linux unless you’re seriously interested. Step one, while still using Windows, would be to transition all of your applications over to equivalents that are supported by Linux. Being comfortable with that is the first test, and will help identify possible gaps. I found a few aspects of the Adobe Suite the most difficult to replace with true equivalents.
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Thank you for your response. Most of the people around me use “Windows”, and I choose to stay consistent with them.
That’s fair enough, and I certainly wouldn’t want to compel you to try something unless you were seriously interested.
I would note though, being able to work with other people is rarely about what operating system everyone is using, and more about what applications and frameworks are being used.
For example, for years before switching from Windows to Linux, I was working alongside creatives who very often use OSX. Despite using a fundamentally different OS and hardware, that rarely factored in our ability to fully work together.
Even on my own development team, one fellow preferred to use his Mac, and that was fine. He’d use IntelliJ IDEA, while the rest of us at that time, used FlashDevelop. We worked it out. Now most folk just use VS Code which is fully cross-platform, so even that’s probably not a hurdle anymore.
Well first of all I have no love for microsoft or any gafam company : I consider them highly toxic and want to stay away as much as possible.
I’ve been wanting to switch to Linux for quite a while but sticked with windows out of habit and laziness 
Win11 seems intrusive and bloated, microsoft seems to shorten the life cycle of windows : now seems like a good time to do it for me. The only program I use that is not on Linux is HaxeDevelop, and I will surely miss it… but I’m sure I can get used to vscode
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Indeed I do 
FlashDevelop / HaxeDevelop and I had some wild times together
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FlashDevelop was a good alternative back in the day when I couldn’t afford a Flex Builder license. I remember I even wrote a plugin in C# to search HTML documentation. If you knew the paths where Macromedia/Adobe installed their docs, you could add it to my FlashDevelop plugin.