What should we do when Windows 7 support ends? It was already a pain with XP, but at least there was still another decent OS to move to.
In descending order of preference:
>Windows 7 Extended Kernel
I've seen projects like this for Windows 98, ME, 2000 and a canceled one for XP (where did that go, anyways?)
>Stay on Windows 7
Most programs I'm concerned about will probably still work with Windows 7 for at least a few years after EOL, although there are a few security concerns
>Windows 8.1
Only if I really have to. Not a huge fan of it though
>Windows 10
I hate spyware and I don't want to have to spend a bunch of time configuring it so it doesn't spy on me
>GNU/Linux (no copypastas here)
Um no. That isn't to say I haven't tried. But I want my programs (and games) to work, not to spend hours messing with settings in WINE or something.
So what should be done about this issue?
Options for the post-Windows 7 Era
Android aka Linux based operating systems on ARM processors are the future and where most software development stuff
Just like every time older versions of windows finally expired, you winfags will take it up the ass as usual and switch to the latest version.
10 ltsc is the same shit as 7
There is nothing wrong with windows 8.1
what is charms
What about it?
linux
ltsb/ltsc
you mean the post windows era
the year of the linux desktop is upon us.
Try solid, the interface is similar and it has almost all the software, you also don't need to update it as it is a rolling distro. Steam now has wine built in and lutris setts itself up, epic works etc.
So if you're really into Windows and don't want to leave the ecosystem, there's Windows 10 AME, which is an unofficial build that removes the botnet entirely. It has the updater completely stripped out of the system, so from a security standpoint it will be the same as staying on 7, but it will have the advantage of still having support for new apps (browsers/gaymes/etc). It also can take full advantage of post Skylake CPS unlike 7.
I have a computer running it for my Windows-specific tasks, but six months ago I bit the bullet and switched to Linux as my primary OS. Yes I said OS; feel free to interject if you're a Stallmanite. Anyway, I'd never thought I'd be able to go with Linux full time as I was a Windows power user, but as it turns out, even the most die-hard Windows users can convert.
There's a distro simply called "solid"? Could you share a link to it directly, please?
Dude,
10 is wonderful. Looks at its slick design
classicshell.net
No,
fuck off. It's shit.
Windows 8.1 is fine, install classic shell and you'll never have to see metro ever again.
AMD just ported DX12 to Win7. People will hold out even longer
Let me interject for a moment
What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux. Thank you for taking your time to cooperate with with me, your friendly GNU+Linux neighbor, Richard Stallman.
Let me interject for a moment
What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux. Thank you for taking your time to cooperate with with me, your friendly GNU+Linux neighbor, Richard Stallman.
>slick design
only if you definition of slick design is a flat inconsistent mess
Just keep using 7 like nothing happens..?
/thread and slavpilled
>10
>slick design
I bet you drive a bland car which is parked outside your bland house while you eat your bland dinner while watching a bland movie. Then jerk of to some bland porn before heading to sleep early to your bland bed because you have to leave early to get to your bland job. And you fall asleep thinking about what an exciting life you live.
By the time Win7 is deprecated, I'd expect ReactOS to have become at least a bit more useful.
Fuck I ment solus. Autocorrect be damned.
Kill yourself, because of fedora whale shits like you (nothing against fedora my weeb distro) Linux hasn't been adopted. Go and finish customising arch install you have and don't make other people cringe in horror after smelling you unwashed incel ass.
use Windows 10 for games, linux for everything else. I recommend Arch if Gentoo is too complicated for you. The AUR has pretty much everything you will ever need, and it supports most programs aside from games. This is what I've been doing, and it works pretty well for me, except I distrohop on the daily, so not always arch though it is my main distro.
Somebody who hasn't ever used Linux won't install arch, manjaro is better for migrants. Still something like Solid 4 or even fedora/Ubuntu/Linux mint are far more accessible and require little maintenance. Steam works everywhere anyway.
fair enough, though arch installation was pretty easy. Something like mint would probably be a lot easier though, especially for someone to linux. Haven't tried Mint myself though yet, but it seems really beginner friendly from what I've heard.
you dont have to mess with wine if you let steam install it for you. it will configure its proton stuff automaticaly, plus if your game is in good old games store. sometimes they also make an auto installer for linux that will auto configure wine with the proper things to make it work on linux.
i know cause i have played games on linux via steam proton, cs go. champions online. gta san andreas, and gog i played baldurs gate.
with this you dont have to mess with any setthing, just double click the installers and let it do its thing
you can use your proprietary software on linux if you get an alternative that has linux support. like instead of premiere you go for davinci resolve.
a daw for linux is tracktion.
there is more
reactos
I just installed Win7 yesterday after a few hours of troubleshooting compatibility issues, works fine and updates great once you get the network driver on there. I will always prefer the Win7 aesthetic over Win10
>be you
>parks batmobile coming home from a difficult rocket surgery
>enters house made out of crazy straws and jello
>quick vr coitus session with virtual projection of queen cleopatra
>get sleepy, enter slumber pod that modulates your rem cycle with fmri and binaural audio
>sleep in late
>wake up for work as rocket surgeon
>repeat
do tell us more about your unblandness user
I'll keep using Windows 7.
What's going to stop me from using Windows 7?
Bear in mind that I haven't updated my install since 2011.
This
>slick
7 different menu styles. macOS has 1. Windows needs a unified UX/UI President who has the authority to tell all the sub-component developers that their shit is WRONG and will not be allowed to ship until they fix that first
I've also had updates disabled for years
who gives a shit?
>pssst... hey kids, wanna plan9?
>Posting a 2015 build
The absolute state of freefags
Why not try Windows 10 Enterprise edition? Assuming you are okay with using a KMS (sort of a crack) for activating it. Enterprise is a no nonsense version of 10 and provides more control wrt privacy (I know, Windows and privacy cannot go in a single sentence). You might be able to google how to do it.
10 LTSC.
Just use KMS from a trusted site or buy a key for like 7€.
Then post proof that clusterfuck of a UI is no longer present.
>being this new
Keep using it?
Юля, пoкaжи cиceчьки!
Redpill me on Win 8.1.
Where's the difference between it and 10 (or 7).
Does it support m.2. SSDs? Is it easier to install on newer hardware than Win7?
So you don't trust Win 10 but you do trust Win 7 which has many unaudited binary blobs written by the same company under the same motives for the past decade+? They're both bad operating systems but I'm not sure how this logic checks out.
- Less invasive that 10
- My laptop has an m.2 sata ssd and I have no issues with it
- Charms can be disabled but some of the settings are using the metro UI. I suggest using something like classic shell
- It has built in support for USB 3 which is not available in windows 7. You can boot and install from a USB 3 flash drive/port.
> What should we do when Windows 7 support ends?
> >Windows 10
> I hate spyware
> >GNU/Linux (no copypastas here)
> Um no.
Make up your mind, you either hate spyware or you use Windows.
Is 8.1 a product, unlike Win10, which is a service?
Remake Windows 3 with FreeDOS but have it run in long mode instead.
you pretty much have to use 10 LTSC unless you're willing to get another GPU.
Linux is great but Proton isn't nearly as good as people pretend it is, literally everything I try doesn't work and needs way more fixes to even run let alone look decent.
>Um no.
Get a retard proof distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint and you'll be surfing the webs just like before in no time.
>b-but this specific piece of software doesn't work on linux
>what should be done about this issue
Learn to live a simpler life and stop playing video games. You need to get ready for a future where your only choices are to either hop on Linux or die.
>he thinks they fixed it
8.1 I guess.
After 2 years of trying to accept Windows 10 with all its faults, I see myself today having once again, trouble even with their own stuff. After a new installation of Windows, I cannot install applications from the store. I tried 20 things, I get 0x80246019 and that's it. Changed region, time and date settings, tried 20 commands. Still not working.
In contrast I haven't had issues like these with 8.1 before I switched. Or at least for a long time. The last time I had trouble with 8.1 was back in 2014. After that, stable as all fuck.
It's a shame that I bought a controller that only works wirelessly over Windows 10. I gimped myself there.
Native USB 3.0 support, can optimize SSDs, boots quickly, pretty light on resources, includes some cool new features (like putting a different wallpaper on each monitor), you can still install plenty of visual styles without it shitting the bed after one update, you can still do a lot of things you can only do on w7 but not 10 (like most of the panel control settings, like associating one program to all the files it supports with just one button, like choosing which updates to install manually)...
It's also more stable than 10, by far. I haven't had any problems on w8.1 similar to what I had to deal with on 10 even last year.
The problems with 8.1: Manufacturers and companies ignore support for it, so you have to use windows 7 drivers. And it might be slightly slower on gaymes, depending on which.
I've checked with Enterprise 1709 installed at work, which lacks the Mail app:
- Edge toolbar uses the same context menu as websites
- Taskbar context menu is the same style as jump lists
- Start tile context menu is the same style as taskbar
So it's down to three different styles, one of which is specific to MS Edge and one that stayed the same for compatibility reasons (system menu), but can be found across an existing software base of Win32 applications.
The old Win8 Metro style can be still found in official Microsoft apps on the store, however.
Set up a Win7 VM in Linux.
Debian Testing with Steam and enable Proton in its settings. Extremely comfy and most games work, check ProtonDB.
>What should we do when Windows 7 support ends?
3rd party support then boycott everything else. It isn't like there's a need for hardware past Win7 level hardware. Everything is stagnated. The only reason they need faster hardware is due to botnet bloat.
Linux no doubt. Even if it's just Ubuntu.
>What should we do when Windows 7 support ends?
Fucking keep using it if it still works for you
>Windows 8.1
Been working on Embedded edition for a few years, it's a great OS. Not as sleek looking as 7, but probably more reliable.
how do i update win 7 to win 8.1 without a format?
do i need to go 7->8->8.1?
Do you have any leads
on this
I'm on pirated Win7 Enterprise. MS will release Win7 security fixes for companies that pay for them till 2023. Only for Professional and Enterprise edition though. I'm pretty sure someone will share them.
just install mac if your such a fag
Look, if you want to continue to use Windows, just get 10 desu. No point in switching to 8.1 especially since big hardware companies are not releasing drivers for it anymore. Spend the time and block 10 from talking back to Microsoft and go on with your life with the latest Windows OS.
Windows 10
If you're worried about privacy, install gentoo
Time to ReactOS
There will probably be a browser for it like mypal for Windows XP and Retrozilla for Windows 98.
support ends and what then? will it stop working or what? Just update it with all patches and done.Use it as long as the software you use runs on it.
You know the answer already.
Come home.
>manjaro for windows converts
Introduction to cars: the chevy HHR
Debian based distros are still the best gateway distros
if the people previously on 7 would go to Windows 8.1 with Classic shell, who's to say that they cave in and give support back?
Just go back to using XP or 2000 again. Fuck it.
#comfy
If you can't make this choice on your own, I'm glad you aren't planning on moving to Linux. Got enough retards using it already.
true, if even manjaro has a lot of bullshit problems with updates breaking stuff. they are just like windwos so people will feel home, plus they are not as much bad as windows bullshit.
i am a manjaro user. i much would rather deal with manjaro's bullshit than windows bullshit
You can get all the features and security of a modern OS with an appearance that is a 1:1 replica of your favorite windows edition. On
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GNU/Linux and VPS with Win10 and just VNC to it.
Sadly still in alpha. May as well use win7 in VM.
I got old laptop that overheats when screen is at max resolution and high cpu usage from youtube video 1080p30.
Vista runs the best. Low idle cpu usage 0-2%. 100% during yt video. 10-60% when web browsing with peaks at 100%. (havent tried xp no license, vista is tweaked for performance, win7 havent tried no license, win10 is a cpu hog)
Why linux uses so much CPU idle? Why vista is so good (xp probably better)?
I tried many linux distros but all have high idle cpu usage and cant play yt at 480p without stutter. Overheats even when idling. 10-30% cpu usage idle.
Windows 8.1 has all the spyware and is more dead than 7 anyway, not an option.
7 isn't going to disappear anytime soon. If it's better for you, use it. Simple as that.
But it was MS, not AMD. Why the fuck AMD would port proprietary garbage in the first place? They back Vulkan.
>Does it support m.2. SSDs?
Even win7 supports them, what would stop you from using it on win8.1?
/thread
>what is charms
Not a problem...?
You can also disable them on the PC Settings app and you can also disable them with Classic Shell to be extra sure.