I'm a Windows user from before Windows itself! 🤣 I used MS-DOS on my i386 SX 25MHz computer in 1988 when I was 16. Yep, the most stable of all was Windows XP, there's no doubt about it. Everyone is free to do as they please with their home computer; it was just a message of prevention. Yes, by taking adequate measures to restrict and control what goes in and out through the network, you can minimize risks.
So, it's strange about the message when installing WhaleVault. I didn't have this error. Maybe @alexpmorris can tell you more about this?
I'm going to try installing it from GitHub. I already downloaded it to the PC. I have also been using Linux for a lifetime. I lived in Italy when the first Ubuntu came out back in 2004.
By the way, I see that you were born in 1972. In that year I entered the University to study Economic Sciences. Do the math.
Obviously I have also used Windows with a 386 and DOS as the operating system. You worked only with the sursor up, down and to the sides. The windows of the current windows were not yet known. They appear in 95.
I remember that in DOS they had a game called Carmen San Diego and to guess where it was going you had to know the color of the flags on the plane. What a story!
Yep, born in the year of pong game hahaha.
My worst memory with i386 was having to manually find the right IRQ pin position on the motherboard to avoid IRQ errors when adding new peripherals. But what a funny time, you bought a peripheral and a month later it was obsolete.
I also remember Carmen San Diego, but I can't remember whether I played it on my PC or on my Atari ST 520, which I had before my PC.