Windows 7 is EOL on January 14, 2020

Windows 7 is EOL on January 14, 2020
What then?

>inb4 GNU+Linux
I only run Windows in virtual machines

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forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/project-10to7.76459/
youtu.be/eoSg3fSB7PA
forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/02/microsoft-confirms-unstoppable-windows-10-tracking/
youtu.be/JwHcOGDHKGM
github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
reactos.org
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Windows_7
techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-apps-on-an-open-source-os-reactos-gains-experimental-support-for-latest-windows-software/
youtube.com/watch?v=DJdr57v3RrE
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Windows 10 or ReactOS

iPad.

Honestly in 2018 I don't see a reason to use windows anymore.

If you only run Windows in VMs then keep using it there and shut it down when not needed.

Just keep it in a vm. Why does it matter?

>not just using MacOS.

this OS is so pretty.
windows 10 is a fucking old slut with dentures

Nothing, I will use it same as before...
Why wouldn't I?

Finally give up and move on to windows 10 probably. Maybe wait and see if someone can make a debonneted version of google's fuchsia with a non-smartphone window manager.

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Some neckbeard on MDL is trying to remove all the UWP crap from windows 10.
Maybe it'll be done by then.
forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/project-10to7.76459/

LTSB [current year]
Like most non tech illiterate power users already do

Just curious, what is a use case for windows that is not
1. Working for some cooperation or going to some college that requires shitty software
2. Video games

Things rarely break, it's extremely simple to maintain, and compatibility is great for many programs. But the privacy concerns are enough to justify switching to a Linux distro or even MacOS.

Is there any reason to care if I use my Windows pc solely for vidya like God intended?

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I've already switched to Windows 10 LTSB, and I run it on one laptop and in virtual machines in QEMU on Fedora. It's not that bad, and I haven't noticed any problems aside from the two settings applications and shitty tablet UI.

Dualboot GNU/Linux and Win 8.1 with tablet shit disabled for gaymes and CAD.

Ancient programs used in corporations that no one dares to update or port to a newer system.
>Things rarely break
I installed Linux Mint after Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 raped my parents' shitty laptop CPU.

I installed 10 on my laptop and the cpu usage stayed at 100%
Using more than 1 tab in Edge made my lappy want to commit sudoku

Stuff that won't work in WINE.

>windows 7 is 8 years old

holy shit

do nothing

Windows 10 2016 LTSB
Perhaps LTSC in a near future, I guess it depends on how much MS fucks it up

It will be done whenever Microsoft publishes an open source code for their latest operating system, which would be never. You may think it can be done, but it demonstrably doesn't work.
youtu.be/eoSg3fSB7PA

Nothing life goes on and windows 7 goes on.
At least they stop to fucking it up.

>ReactOS
Kill yourself nigger
Not everybody wastes money on trash
Windows 10 is waste of money and botnet

Mac OS costs 0,00$ and it's compatible with most x86-based computers.

>>ReactOS
>Kill yourself nigger
it should be usable by 2020
>Not everybody wastes money on trash
macOS is free
>Windows 10 is waste of money and botnet
>implying windows 7 is any different

Why? Are there Windows 10 software exclusives Microsoft doesn't predetermine for you? Is it the utter failure that is DirectX12? No version could ever be free of telemetry either. Game performance, as perhaps the only reason anyone uninformed would leap to Windows 10, is also the same as in the previous versions.
forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/02/microsoft-confirms-unstoppable-windows-10-tracking/
youtu.be/eoSg3fSB7PA
youtu.be/JwHcOGDHKGM

>macOS is free
It's just that the specific hardware which supports it isn't. Hackintosh or not, you have to cater to the OS. Hardly free in any sense of the word.

because linux is a meme

>because linux is a meme
Fair and nuanced answer, thank you. I'm downloading pre-activated Windows 10 right now.

Windows 10 with a lot of tweaking to keep that bitch from breaking

Sounds like a regress from a version of Windows which doesn't do that.

Take a pick.
GNU/Linux
ReactOS
MacOS
Windows 10

>No version could ever be free of telemetry either.
>muh telemetry boogeyman
WIndows 10 hardly phones home any more than Windows 8.1 did once you flip all the switches to off/basic
Your android apps phone home more in a week than Windows 10 does in a month

8.1

>Like most non tech illiterate power users already do
This is a good joke on several levels.

Linux + Wine until ReactOS becomes usable

Because you need Windows/macOS exclusive programs, since Windows is less painful than macOS
Or you need some DRM bullshit like Netflix, or support for brand new hardware
Also, the desktop quality of GNU/Linux has gone down a lot since Lennartware and Gnomefaggotry became a full blown thing, fuck Red Hat, now the best DEs and desktop distros are almost as bad as Windows 10

>WIndows 10 hardly phones home any more than Windows 8.1 did once you flip all the switches to off/basic
Demonstrably not true, even with tools which supposedly do far more than that. Did you not watch the video?
>Your android apps phone home more in a week than Windows 10 does in a month
Assuming you have somehow confirmed this - on Android, it being an open source mobile operating system, you have a choice. You can choose FOSS apps, as well as an open source ROM and limit or send false data to anyone profiling you.

>Because you need Windows/macOS exclusive programs
Sure, but I specifically asked about Windows 10 exclusives. None of the DAWs, architecture software or photo editing software is Windows 10 exclusive. Regarding the second part of your post - you can choose not the use GTK based desktop environments, as you should in 2018.

This may well change when Apples starts making its own CPUs.

>you can choose not the use GTK based desktop environments, as you should in 2018
Nah, MATE is a great DE to use in 2018.

What's the best way to get W10 LTSB?
Pay for enterprise edition?
Use the trial and keep renewing?
Otherwise I'm just gonna throw arch on this bitch

Alright?

>Otherwise I'm just gonna throw arch on this bitch
Do this and choose Antergos.

And with a VM, you can choose what internet traffic to let through. Also, did you audit the Android source code? If not, how do you know it's not open-sores botnet?

centOS

what even runs windows anymore? i mean besides bitcoin miners and gaming rigs no one outside of the business is using it anymore. it's completely dead as a consumer platform.

Download an untouched .iso. Make sure the hash matches (eg. sha1 031ED6ACDC47B8F582C781B039F501D83997A1CF). Install without internet connection. I recommend using github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script or some similar script to ease disabling parts of the botnet. You can activate LTSB with vlmcsd (open source), or if you're brainlet use KMS_VL_ALL-SppExtComObjPatcher or KMSpico portable (they're closed source afaik). Enjoy (or not.. it's still botnet)

>Windows
>GIMP
way to gimp yourself moron lmao

Aaand you wake up when you actually get to work in IT

I already stopped trusting Windows updates over a year ago so nothing really changes for me

>open-sores botnet?
Thank you for confirming you're not worth indulging any further. Take this to /b/ please.

normal consumer laptops that aren't macs, the kind that grandparents use.
there are lots of them.

thanks

Not sure if trolling or intentionally ignoring statistics.

Windows 7 has the same telemetry as 10.

uh, that's wrong, sweetie
windows 7 doesn't upload any data when i'm not using the internet

?

Only through updates which you can uninstall and disable the scheduled tasks and services.

It's a core part of the new OS.

If you haven't updated, you might as well post your data publicly anyway. So many exploits.

That's demonstrably wrong.

How will you reactos.org ?

>Honestly in 2018 I don't see a reason to use windows anymore.
Why the fuck does Jow Forums continue to pretend that the overwhelming majority of industry standard, enterprise software out there isn't all for fucking Windows, and that the open-source offerings on Linux aren't almost always subpar?

Linux is wonderful if you don't want to actually do anything, or you want to just run everything in a VM.

>I only run Windows in virtual machines
Windows 10 LTSB if you have to.

Because all they do is shitpost and watch anime.
works fine for them :^)

windows server 2016/2019

no windows store
no edge browser
telemetry can be completely turned off

Im happy with xubuntu and only use win 7 in vm for media go to move shit to my walkman.

Lennartware AIDS, like pulseaudio, udev, logind, and systemd, has infested almost all DEs
This also conveys all the awful practices and ideologies Gnomefaggotry has, spawning gems like "I don't know what XFCE is or does" into the other DEs, this also includes KDE and even XFCE, KDE has similar gems in it's bugtracker

no dumbass, there are updates specifically for adding telemetry. you can uninstall those.

ReactOS.

I work IT in one of the biggest administration in my country.
All our computers are running Windows 7. A few specialized one are still running XP for legacy support of old software or hardware.
We will slowly begin migrating to W10 this summer though.
Though our servers and public computer all run some linux distros.

Wake me when it has graphics drivers

wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Windows_7
>Warning: As of late 2016, Windows updates are combined into inseparable batches. This means that you cannot remove bullshit telemetry "updates" reliably. The only options are to run Windows with known vulnerabilities, run Windows with microsoft spyware, or to not run Windows at all.
I dunno, user. You got a more recent guide or info or something?

Why would anybody use Windows 7 today? It's inherently flawed and vulnerable. So much that the military complex and industries have moved to Windows 10.

I do digital art in Photoshop, Illustrator, use FL studio and do some casual gaming.
VMs and Wine seem like a huge fucking hassle right now, but we'll see in two years.

this
u know win7 is bad when the military goes from winxp to win10

>ReactOS
Actually...
techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-apps-on-an-open-source-os-reactos-gains-experimental-support-for-latest-windows-software/

Install malewarebytes and rock it some more or disconnect internet if you want to preserve the relic for future generations.

Are you awake?
youtube.com/watch?v=DJdr57v3RrE

This.

Most offices can work just fine with an ipad doing documents in the cloud.
Last time I checked ipad 2017 and ipad 6 (2018) were dirt cheap compared to what they used to cost back in the days. Over 1 day in battery, current cpu is snappy.
You would need a proper laptop for the more complex accounting because you need to use software provided by the tax authorities of your country but that can be done on a machine with windows 10, a pc costing as much as your cheap ipad with a keyboard.
Software devs can go with Debian based distros.

>you can choose not the use GTK based desktop environments, as you should in 2018.

I loved 7 but 10 is better. There's no point in resisting change like this. At some point within the next five years I expect I will drop Windows entirely but that's not yet.

>There's no point in resisting change like this.

GTK isn't Pulseaudio, logind, udev or systemd

>have dual xeon rig with shitton of ram
>nvidia gpu
>8tb in raid 1 hdds
>2x SSD
> ...runs windoz 10
What do guys!? I need to edit video and photo, but windoz steal all my stuffs and hax me with adz! How do windoz know I browz server porn and bombard me wid adz?
Whad OS do uze!?

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Quick, install that one OS that hasn't updated OpenGL drivers in 7 years, that'll allow you to utilize your hardware effectively.

Windows 8.1?

This is a shitty situation to be in desu. My host file has never contained more characters. I also block stuff with pfSense.

>linix iz a memü
>privacy iz a memü
keep being a telmetry nigger

>if I keep repeating "industry standard" without mentioning which industry I'm talking about maybe people will think I'm smart
I personally have to use Windows at work because corporate environments are fucking horrible. Most of the stuff is in browser, but I can't even open some specific work-related websites without using a specific older version of IE because it's easier for developers to just not fix their shit. If it wouldn't be so half-assed then I would hardly even need Windows. Active Directory and Azure are so shitty that there are constantly some data replication problems, they should be replaced immediately. Active Directory even has a problem that one person can't have too many rights at the same time, they have to lose some to fit new rights. What a fucking jurassic system.

So normal office related stuff could be replaced whenever if all the developing wouldn't be outsourced to Pajeets who can only use Windows. If you're talking about shit like Adobe then those are already used on Macs first. The """industry standard""" is also a VGA port in conference room projectors which should have died two decades ago. That's the only reason Thinkpads have that port. If old corporate wankers who can't learn new things anymore would be wiped out the world would be a better place and Linux could be the industry standard no matter the industry.

>GTK isn't Pulseaudio, logind, udev or systemd
Pulseaudio and systemd have alternatives.

>What then?
Keep fucking using it
like holy shit who gives a fuck
every single person who pirated win7 doesn't use updates, nobody gives a shit about muh security updates as long as your browser is up to date.

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>nobody gives a shit about muh security updates
People who do don't use Windows. But I know we all like to pretend security updates can actually be confirmed to patch anything on a proprietary operating system.

>VM and Wine is a lot of hassle
maybe for a tech illiterate person it is

Qt

you know someones opinion doesn't count when they are too fucking lazy to type "you" instead of "u"

>I only run Windows in virtual machines
Then you already don't let them to connect to the Internet, do you?