Implausable. I have a PC from 2006-2007 with a equally old Nvidia card and it can run modern Debian(AntiX 23.1) just fine with FOSS drivers.

>When the laptop was new, it was a common sense to support as much old Windozes as possible.

What does that even mean in correct English without leet speak?

>Come on, this laptop definitely deserves to have a PDF reader.

Instead of expecting people to write Windows 7 compatible software today why aren't you trying Linux on it? Then you can read all the PDFs you like. Have some common sense please.

I expect not this, I expect the author to tell in his minimal requirements page about the OS version.

No it wasn't.

> Come on, this laptop definitely deserves to have a PDF reader.

Then use an operating system that is supported instead of expecting devs to do what you tell them to do.

> No it wasn't.

How old are you? In 2009 it was not just common, backward compability was Windoze's killer feature at that time.

> Then use an operating system that is supported instead of expecting devs to do what you tell them to do.

Adding one text line in System Requirements page, no any coding, is telling devs what to do? There is a reason why the System Requirement pages exist.

You're massively confused and mistaken on what backwards compatibility actually is. Backwards compatibility means that a platform/OS from the present day can run software from the past, not that an OS from the distant past(2009) can somehow magically run software from 15 years in the future, which is what you're trying to do and is not a use case any mainstream OS has ever been designed for since nobody ahs a crystal ball to know how SW will be written in the future.