Can I use Windows 7 forever if my only interests are reading, e-mail, and watching videos?

Can I use Windows 7 forever if my only interests are reading, e-mail, and watching videos?
Or will I inevitably be opening myself up to security threats sooner or later?

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Yes

>Can I use Windows 7 forever
I know that I will for sure, even if it meant to stay with last-gen hardware

For your usecase, you could easily install a Linux Distribution. Its free, getting regular updates and secure.
Ubuntu is easier to install than windows and, as long as you are not using MS Office, I really recommend you give it a shot.

It's supported until 2026. You'll be fine for a while.

why not install a linux distro if that's all you want to do with your pc anyway?

On laptops you get shit battery life and generally runs hotter. Plus inferior desktop composition compared to 7.

because any troubleshooting or problem solving requires me to become an amateur programmer which is not something I have time or interest for

The second one

I hope ReactOS will become a viable alternative.

is there a linux distro that emulates the look and feel of windows 7?

>It's supported until 2026
Where do you have it from? The support ends in January 2020. Just over a year to go...

WES is supported until 2025 and WEC until 2026. WES is a modular Ultimate.

No. Linux GUI is arguably worse than Win10

Tbh even XP is still usable for you, as long as you don't open freeporn.exe or freebitcoin.cn

Where did you get this info from? To my knowledge, the end of extended security updates for Embedded Standard 7 ends sometime October 2020.

Who the fuck cares about security updates that are nothing but spyware anyway? I've used SP1 since it came out with zero updates and I don't get why anyone would even get any.

ZorinOS, ChaletOS, and some pajeet OS which bundles with a bunch of windows-popular software by default (forgot the name).

>shit battery life
Stopped being an issue several kernel versions ago

Same for windows 7, honestly. The only difference is fixing Linux issues won't lead to "you have to install this malware to fix this".

Just use Linux Mint.
>will I inevitably be opening myself up to security threats
You already have

Don't listen to these brainlets.
Just use Xubuntu

It's literally a worse Mint Xfce

>Xubuntu
>worse
All Mint varients are filled with retarded bloats.
Offical Ubuntu flavours are better.

What if I want file history or uefi support?

fuck windows, microsoft and fuck you

If all you do is read, email, and watch videos I'm not sure how much security you actually need.
If anything goes wrong, just revert to a clean disc image.
I plan on using W7 faaar past the support deadline, and in the meantime I'm teaching myself about encryption and learning how to mod the registry and file system.

nice trips/dubs/dubs combo
anyway, all distributions can be set up to look like other distros.
But desktop environment is usually where the main GUI you're thinking of is.
Most people here on Jow Forums use GNOME, which looks kind of like macOS by default
I always used KDE, which by default has a more windows-like setup (start menu, desktop icons, etc. See pic related for KDE 4.2.2
You can add a dock if you want but you dont have to and its not win7-like.

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No, because the web is constantly evolving and incorporating new technologies that old browsers don't support anymore. Windows 7 will one day become as useless as Windows 98 is today.

>Who the fuck cares about security updates

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>(((the web)))
>(((new technologies)))
if the malvertising and tracking JavaShit trends are anything to go by, I don't want any part of new technologies

>rounded corners
ugh, gag me with a spoon

You won't have a choice. If you want to watch youtube, you'll need to use a modern browser.

I still use xp every day so yeah.

you can have solid block corners if you want

stop being a microsoft fag

oh ok, you sold me :)

Everything is equally pozzed now

I haven't updated my Win7 since 12.2017, because after that date they implented these mandatory idiotic Spectre/Meltdown patches. I don't want to lose performance because of these damn patches. I've heard there are quite big performance drops on SSD systems with I/O operations, is that correct? How big are these performance drops on normal systems?

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The "updates" do nothing but crash your computer.

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I still have a drive with windows 7, with no antivirus. I use it only for work and I don't browse the web on it (I just watch youtube videos). You're safe as long as you stay away from other sites.

you don't have to worry about the patches, the ones that impact performance require firmware/bios update and unless the hardware was quite literally released yesterday they ain't gonna spend any time making fixes == no update to perpetuity

Install vanilla 7, SP1, convenience rollup, drivers and that's it

I've been sticking it out with Windows 7, and it does work still and probably won't be an issue for years if you stick to older hardware. Security updates are nice, but they generally aren't necessary provided you avoid clicking "freekeylogger.com" when the opportunity presents itself.

There are three issues though:

1. Eventually software will no longer work on Windows 7/(kernel 6.1,) they will either have checks for what you are running - or will be making calls to libraries you will not have. This means just like XP, newer versions of browsers may no longer work. You can try compiling/modifying your own stuff, but eventually, you will get stuck under an avalanche of "nothing is going to work." There are some people who have done work to extend Windows 2000 so it works with newer software via custom .dlls which implement various newer functions, but who knows if anyone will bother with 7.

2. Newer CPUs/hardware seem to be changing the feature set they require from the OS in terms of the kernel (I'm guessing?) As an example, the recent Ryzen APUs BSOD due to an issue with ACPI when you install Windows 7 on them.

3. Drivers will be a barrier. Even messing around with disabling driver signing and .inf modding, Windows 7 just won't be compatible with newer drivers. I've tested a few 10 drivers on 7, and am getting various code 30 range errors. In addition, there will be a point where no one makes drivers for 7 - see Intel's xHCI USB 3.0 support for the Cannonlake PCH.

>2. Newer CPUs/hardware seem to be changing the feature set they require from the OS in terms of the kernel (I'm guessing?) As an example, the recent Ryzen APUs BSOD due to an issue with ACPI when you install Windows 7 on them.
This is mostly just bullshit on windows part, most of the drivers actually work 100% on windows 7, its just that their easy installation has been disabled to sell new hardware and force people to upgrade to windows 10

windows 10 is a fucking disaster, they've been giving it away for literal years but it still hasn't caught up to W7

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That's actually what I've been investigating as I figured as much. I mean, Vista/7/8/8.1/10 are still all "based" on the 6.X kernel, and I would imagine that not a whole lot has been changed in terms of how Windows starts the drivers up and communicates with them - although this is a bit beyond my scope of knowledge.

I was trying to get generic xHCI and USB3.0 drivers working on Windows 7 as I was hoping everything would just work - but it seems like something is initialized differently in terms of the actual .sys code blob in newer versions to make them fail to start on 7. Getting generic xHCI support would be great as all USB controllers on newer motherboards that are compliant should work no issue on 7... instead of being held mercy by Intel and AMD (or Asmedia) to release drivers.

The only thing I could see being fundamentally different in terms of drivers between versions would be the display driver due to WDDM. So I can understand 10's graphic drivers not working on 7.

As a disclaimer, I don't know a ton about how drivers are made/done on Windows, and I'm purely speculating - I'm just stubborn and don't want to move to 10.

The only good thing I've seem from 10 is DirectX 12's raytracing feature, everything else seems like a step backwards.

Xubuntu has worse defaults

>buy new ideapad
>Ubuntu can't install because it can't detect driver ids because they're too new and aren't in the kernel yet
I should of trusted Jow Forums and got an old Thinkpad

iirc someone made a windows 7 theme for xfce or some other DE, never used it myself

Provide source

I think he is getting it from this website in terms of "distribution date":
blogs.directinsight.co.uk/end-of-life-dates-for-windows-embedded-products-2/

The only issue is that Microsoft themselves say it lasts until October 2020:
support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search/14112

There is a small possibility that the updates might continue into 2023 due to Professional and Enterprise VLK editions getting extra updates, but who knows.

>only interests are reading, e-mail, and watching videos
vi har samma
paitsi että i use opensuse leap to do all that

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Does the convenience rollup really not have any botnet updates in it? It's too recent for me to trust it at face value.

Linux would be perfect for you. You can change the gui to your liking. I think mint mimmicks windows 7 as well.

Fuck, should have checked lenovos compatibility list for linux. That sucks

The battery life thing is not true anymore. It used to, I know. But I have been dual booting for a decade and it is not the case.

you need to run javascript on an os with no security updates which is really retarded..

It's mostly a bunch minor updates (time zones, internet certificates, crashing in some apps, etc.)

>apps

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I meant, "fixed rare crashing in some system programs"

There are many, but every single one that tried failed.

xubuntu is nice and it just works.

thanks, this is the option I'm gonna try out
I've played with Ubuntu for a course, but that was entirely within the terminal

I was using XP until last month due to old PC that practically couldn't handle anything newer.

Couldn't recall having a virus or troj (at least nothing I noticed anyhow), though been using antivirus.
Also never bothered to install any update or smth like that. Am not going to update Win7 that I use atm.

As for XP it is to be ditched sooner or later unfortunately. Major web browsers are ending its support, so in some time it'll become less and less usable for you. For instance re captcha that is in use by Jow Forums stops working somewhere between Firefox 17 and ff 39 (don't remember the exact version), although several months ago it used to work fine w/ff 17 (on Jow Forums you can still use no-JS version but to the best of my knowledge it takes a while to load). So one day most websites will display incorrectly for you, though the situation isn't that dramatic (open FF3 from 2008 and try how it feels). Another pain in the back is SSL, e.g. around 40% of websites ain't opened in old versions of Firefox at the moment so at some point same shit shall happen to the last version of the browser supporting Win7, but as someone stated it's not going to happen until 2026 or let's hope so (those who buy new hardware know drivers for Win7 ain't available already for many critical parts such as USB 3 and SATA).

tl;dr if you don't plan any upgrade it will be perfectly fine for at least 10 years.

Lastly did I have to choose betwenn windows 98 or any Linux distro I'd still go with Windows. Linux is just insufferable as a desktop OS. Those who use it are literal perverts.

install gentoo hardened