aaron<p>People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.<br>I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.<br>No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.<br>Display drivers broke four times.<br>Serpent is the only browser I could get working.<br>I installed Office 2003.<br>Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.<br>NVDA still works fine.<br>I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.<br>I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.<br>Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.<br><a href="https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea</span><span class="invisible">d-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/</span></a><br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/WindowsXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowsXP</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/BlindComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlindComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a> <br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/NVDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NVDA</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/JAWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JAWS</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/audiogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>audiogames</span></a> <br><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/30DaysOfXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>30DaysOfXP</span></a></p>