Uhm, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by newer interfaces. What I was thinking of was how in Win XP they made the title bar thicker and rounded off. Which in my eyes just made it use up more of the screen. This guy was talking about themed buttons, how exactly does that add functionality? I'm not exactly sure which features you're referring to. Like I said, I haven't tried Vista, I would check it out if I had the chance I suppose, if I knew somebody who had it. I don't think that I'm resistant to change, I just don't see the point of changing when my current system does everything I need it to.
And what exactly do you do for a living anyway that upgrades aren't cost prohibitive? I collect shopping carts at a grocery store for $7 an hour part-time. I clear about $100+ a week. I don't really have an excess of spending money, I could buy a new PC if I wanted to right now, but I just don't need to. My computer has done almost everything I've wanted to do on it just fine for the last 6 years without upgrading the OS or anything, I only upgraded the RAM once and the HDD, other than that I haven't needed anything else. I'm not the sort of guy who buys all the newest fanciest software. There's plenty of fun free games and apps on the internet that'll run just fine on my computer, like MUSHclient for example.
I don't know, maybe there's lots of underage players on MUDs, I don't really play a lot of those, I play on a MUSH, and most of the players there are older. There are a few younger players, but they are far from the majority of the playerbase. All I know is that I was out of high school before I even discovered the existance of MU*s, quite by accident in fact.
Maybe I'm just in unusual circumstances, I never had a lot of money, and the only computers I had before my current computers were garage sale finds. I had old commodore 64s and 128s, I had an AT and XT, once I had a 25 MHz processor, another time like a 133 MHz.
Anyway, enough of my life story, all I was saying is don't give up backwards compatibility. If you can add new features without giving up compatibility with older systems, by all means go ahead, makes no difference to me, but if it suddenly stops working with my system for a relatively minor feature like themed buttons, I'd be pissed. |