On 2017-12-29, Nomen Nescio  wrote:

> Axel Berger  wrote:
>
>> I can now clone my system partition file by file, swap the drive and
>> have a running system. Under eXPerimental I can not only not write to
>> system files in use (reasonable) but also not read them. What the heck?
>
> XP does not mean eXPerimental. I know a dinosaur won't understand.

Pull his other leg, Axel - maybe it'll come off too.

>> Under any reasonable system I can copy any program folder to another
>> machine, start the program and it runs. If it needs external data, e.g.
>> in the system folder, it maust be able to resore those itself.
>
> There is no such system in widespread use. Compatible shared libraries need
> to be installed by an administrator.

I still write freestanding executables for Windows.
But I'm probably a dinosaur.

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