https://www.gog.com/mix/games_that_have_windows_xp_support_elsewhere
Please help me find more.

Inspired by:
https://www.gog.com/mix/games_that_have_native_linux_portselsewhere

Gogmix suggestion: List of users who insist on still using 15 year old operating systems.

Use whatever OS you want,but some of the XP advocates here are coming off like fanatics on the subject.

First, most of those Retail specs came out when XP was still either the current OS supplied by Microsoft or at least supported by Microsoft.

Second, Steam is terrible for keeping information upto date. If it was released when WinXP was around, it will say Win Xp on the specs.

Third. These games may still run on winXP, it just you need to stop thinking GoG can support you with an OS that has no support from microsoft.

Is it a bad thing? (aside from security issues, which is debatable, cuz of win 10)

To topicstarter - I think, all emulated games (dosbox and such), plus everything, released before... where did XP die? Overall - most of GoG's store should work without problems

The problem is, that you never know in advance whether GOG broke something with their bad (client) fiddling.

There are reasons why 1 out of 17 people still use WinXP and way more have it as an off-line secondary system:
It's still the best OS for old games since it can run 16 and 32 bit games perfectly even on slow hardware with few RAM.
In addition to that, most games that are WinXP compatible are also WINE compatible.

GoG have to fiddle every now and then to ensure they installers and games work on currently supported OSes. That's what they do, its what makes them great.

And if it breaks XP compatibility, there is little they can do about it.

GoG can not in all good faith and honesty put "supports XP", because quite simply they can not ensure it will. If you hit a problem with Win7 that GoG themselves can't figure, they can go to the developers which then can go to Microsoft, or GoG can go direct to microsoft. With XP the buck stops with them, regardless of where the problem lies.

He isn't asking for GOG to SUPPORT XP, just to include the goddamned original files in the downloads, which GOG should be doing without having to be asked!

Don't buy the GOG versions, then, I guess?

What are you talking about??? All he wants is the original game files, which is 1000% reasonable.

Expeditions: Conquistador still has all the original game files, yet it did get a thread about losing "XP Supported" status. So it doesn't seem like he's asking for the original game files, but for XP support.

What's wrong with wanting original game files for older games to be included in the game downloads?

It's no skin off your nose, and it's no skin off GOG's nose, so what's your problem?

Why ? They never did it and never said they would. If you want them to provide the original files then ask on the whishlist for them to do so.

But on the other side what are the "original files" for, let's say, Fallout 3 ?

The original retail version which used Securom and GFWL, the original Steam version that don't work without Steam or without owning the game on Steam ? or original Gog version that is DRM-free but doesn't work with Windows XP ?

Perhaps, but I'm pretty certain he'd be very happy just having original files, which sorts the problem in most cases.
The only problem with the GOG version is a Galaxy dll. o.O

That was not the question, the question was what version is the "original one" ?