What will you do on January 14th 2020 when extended support ends for Windows 7?

Places still use 2000.

Microsoft kowtowed with XP, I doubt they'll do it again.

Nothing. Keep using Win 7. Only pr0n collectors and movies thieves need to be concerned about patches. I am not a degenerate so...

i'm running windows 7 and the only updates I have are the service packs, I pirated it years ago when I built my PC. Had no issues.

If they don't start improving QA over 10 they may have to

Install ESET anti-virus during the holidays when I get it for 50% off.

Good luck getting banks and some corps to move to 10 when even Enterprise edition can't turn off data collectioin
Literally crying waiting for the data Microsoft gets their data collection servers hacked

Keep an AV running and updated.

They care a lot less about data collection than you think. They actually don't care about much to be honest. "Do we pass PCI?" is about the extent of it.

I'll still be using Gentoo you nigger.

An extension of what I did the moment they announced 10 as the last Windows and the date of death of W7: keep using Linux.
I can't believe I used Windows for almost 20 years, what a garbage OS.

>No patches isn't the end of the world

No drivers is, though.

what gnu/linux are you on and are you using a distro or only a window manager?

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Debian Sid with xfce, GNOME on the laptop. KDE looks much better now, maybe I should try it. I've been trying KDE every year, but I always go back to the tearing mess that is xfce, hopefully this is the year I ditch both DEs.

At least one version of 7 embedded (Thin PC) is EOL in 2021. Also, MS won't let millions of machines go insecure connected to the internet, of course this depends on if it is millions. Time will tell!

probably just use debian with i3/xfce4
maybe ubuntu since
>it just werks

>Implying i will be alive by 2020

You have some inside info?

What's their reason for creating all these different os when they could just improve the same one?

It must have not mattered since they said Windows 10 was their last OS.

Is this true or you meming?

Last version of Windows iirc. They will update 10 forever until they finally eat the Linux kernel.

Nah. AV is plebes. I haven't run one in over a decade. Never had a problem. Again, only casuals and degenerates have problems with viruses and the like. Get gud fagut and you will find this to be true.

This.
/thread

I won't give a fuck, I dropped it for the better Windows® 10 the moment we got blessed with the first public build.

By that time I'll have KVM-capable CPU, so I'll install Linux as a main OS and install Windows 10 LTSB in a VM with GPU passthrough for muh gaemz.
Or just get a dock for my Thinkpad running linux and replace the desktop with a Playstation.

How do you not have a KVM capable CPU? What are you brazilian

I don't even turn windows updates on after a fresh install of windows 7.
Never had any issue in years on a home network environment.

Nothing. Also Windows 7 is supported until October 2021.

Intel supports VT-d only with Haswell and newer. I'm not jewish enough to bother replacing my 2600K with anything until Ryzen and Coffee Lake came out.

probably would have to fall for the genuu lincuck meme

It's finally time, at last

Still not use windows and carry on not being spied on.

openpepe leap 15 soon
then windows 7 living in a cozy comfy vm until the bitter end

Stay on my xubuntu

Stick to Windows if your to stupid to fix tearing.

What do you mean? I have drivers for all my hardware. Those won't stop existing once they drop support.

Manufacturers will all move on so that you can't get any driver updates or use new hardware. What will you do after 2020/2021 when you have to upgrade to a new graphics card and the driver for it isn't supported anymore?

Tbh the extended suppert actually ends in 2025

I have VT-d with my 3rd gen Xeon. 1230v2.

nothing
keep on running windows 7

I start charging extra to the faggots bringing in Win 7 computers to the shop because it's a legacy and unsupported O/S.

Have fun losing customers

Keep using Windows 10

Ha, it's not like they have many choices within hundred mile radius, most of them are already on Win10.

Let me answer that question with a question, user.

On what planet, in what universe, in what conceivable alternate reality, has Microsoft ever provided anything that vaguely resembles even the SLIGHTEST modicum of what would be considered helpful support?

>But Muh Security Updates!
>The Windows Update Meme

Seriously, Microsoft needs to figure out what the fuck it is they're doing.

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Only the K SKUs on consumer Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge platforms don't support VT-d. You should have gotten a C2 stepping 3930K instead.

yes!

how?

kek from my debian machine

Continue using it like I do XP on my laptop. I don't do any online banking or email or shit, I don't care if I get hacked. Fuck Win10.

Any time they want to provide me a copy of everything they do collect and then the option to turn it all off, would be much appreciated. Until then, fuck off.

I don't have it, but please post that chat screenshot with a Microsoft developer if you have it. Windows 10 was by his admission hacked to work, and in the worst conceivable way.

I can look for it but I don't have it on hand. Sounds fun though.

Any other anons have it?

xp support ended a million years ago but it had an update in 2016 or 2017.

Hoping that native linux gaming is a thing by then. That or sucking the 8.1 micro dick for another 3 years.

That looks fucking cool

sauce?

hopefully by the end of win8.1 support, Linux will be a viable alternative, or Microsoft gets their shit together and give us a version without the spying, probably the former has more chances to happen.

This but I dunno about going to 8.1. I do like that there's been progress on the linux side of gaming (and things like vulkan that also support 7)

What isn't viable about GNU/Linux?

They use it for trying to sell you crap with advertising that alone pisses me off.

Keep using it. It won't just magically stop working.

Windows 3.1 was my first so 25+ years for me. I remember the 95 hype, staring at this screen waiting for 95 to finish installing as a kid, shit was mind blowing at the time

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keep using the superior 8.1
>he needs 3 times as long to boot
>he needs to install third party crapware to mount isos
lol

Full Manjaro install

Damn guys, 2010 was like 40 years ago already, can you believe it?

Nothing because I’m already on Windows 10 which is far superior. Only idiots that try too hard to be different and go against the wave would stay on Win7. Enjoy your security issues, incompatible apps, and far inferior performance, retards.

Keep using windows 10 as I have done so for the past 4 years

Not having a compositor at default is the dumb xfce for you.
Nvidia proprietary drivers fuck up all the time and even forcing the composition pipeline breaks, getting the tearing mess all over again.
Ignoring these problems does not make the situation any better, acknowledging to fix them later should be the default mindset. I don't know why you would recommend someone to go back to Windows after a few years in Linux, that's completely retarded. Don't you want its marketshare to grow? No, I won't use the nouveau garbage. No, I don't have an AMD card and I regret it.

fpbp

You must have and do nothing of value to not care if you get hacked, that's actually pretty sad user.

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I found it.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11387759
I'll definitely "upgrade" to this.

Won't be surprised if Microsoft put a kill switch

Certain DX11 games, I'm fine with Blender and Openshot so I don't need a Maya or Vegas replacement.

Install Gentoo. I thought we made that clear in the first post retard.

Indeed, just browsing, shitposting, some Youtube, porn, couple gaymes. If it gets owned I'll just clean install, I've got everything backed up offline.

Oh god reading this is really awful.
>They literally designed it in powerpoint
Holy fucking shit

KDE plasma? which version? How do you set up tiling like that?

Ritual suicide.

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>MS
>improving QA
where's that screencap, you know the one? those horror stories about the MS code base and how nobody really knows what it does and how they force their coders to not fix only most bugs that don't cause data loss, the same MS that pushed a series of updates six months ago that bricked people's hardware and boot-looped installs of windows 10 to death?

This one?

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Either Microsoft can keep making money off whales that need extended support for their systems, or 3rd parties will step in to do it

thaaat's the stuff
yeah, MS ain't fixing shit if that's to be believed.

>Not having a compositor at default is the dumb xfce for you.
>Ignoring these problems does not make the situation any better, acknowledging to fix them later should be the default mindset.
AFAIK it's gonna get fixed soon. Still, it's so easy to fix by yourself that people complaining about tearing irritate me.
>No, I don't have an AMD card and I regret it.
I'm so sorry, user.

Here as well.

Buy windows 8.1

I don't use 7, using 8.1 but even if I did why would I care, them ending official support changes nothing. It's the same way with "you won't get updated drivers" argument, why would I update my drivers, they work. "Security", haven't had any issues ever.

I will never not read this entirely whenever its posted, its just too good lmao

stop playing games and