You ignore the fact that win10 is already inherently malware. It breaks your privacy in any imaginable way. And i dont need to fear stuff gets broken with each new forced upgrade.
Windows 10 has been such a disappointment in every regard. I could have stayed with the rock stable Windows 7 my old AMD based computer and avoided all those issues with Windows You DO have a choice. What Bindere Dunrat wants to convey is the very general idea that under capitalism, you always have the FREEDOM to starve homeless if do not want to obey all the rules edicted by private monopolies with the sole objective of maximizing their bottom line.
Well, they will also hold a loaded gun at your head if you disagree with them making the rules, so you win there too. The Windows 10 biannual update cycle is a bad idea all around. Maybe, maybe… win10 could become palatable then. Yea, I too just built a new Ryzen machine so had to go to Win10 Ent to get the most out the the new processor architecture. Win10 is fine as long as you neuter it as much as possible with privacy apps and such and only use Enterprise or LTSC.
If you game or use Photoshop etc using Windows 7 is like beating an old mule. I agree. Furthermore, I reckon it will likely be harder and sketchy to keep Win 7 going for free, than to deal with tweaking Win Personally, it took me some time, but I finally got Win 10 to be better than Win 7, IMO, and the reasons you spoke of.
Also note, you can run Linux and Win 7 on that same old box, and just use Win 7 offline when the support ends. So now that this is front page news, how long will it take MS to plug the hole? Nobody likes egg on their face in public. Good point. I expect this crack with stop working soon, so many Win 7 users will likely still be vulnerable to future security risks. Also, being that Win 7 is still supported now until January 14, , this news is rather moot.
The questions now are: Is it even worth the hassle of keeping Win 7 updated for free like that? Will such options even work well? As for Win 7, I will continue to use it offline after January 14, , and may try updating it, if that process is simple enough, secure, and free. I had planned to solely use Linux Mint for my online needs after , but might actually get a few more years out of 8. Best experience EVER. Microsoft are unlikely to care.
Big businesses that want support will pay for it. I can only imagine that people who think Windows 10 is garbage in must not be very good with computers. Pretty much all the undesirable quirks are easily fixable with a powershell script, or a little bit of tweaking to a SOE.
Stop holding onto your dinosaur operating systems. Windows 10 supports a few new technologies and is the only version of Windows that Microsoft supports installing on post-Skylake-era chipsets. Eventually, maybe starting two or three years after end of life, app developers will stop supporting Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Nothing is wrong with Win7. I do creative work, like 3d rendering, using raster and vector editors, entertainment works also: movies, games, you name it. If you have edition, download home edition if you have pro, then download pro. I did it with my HP laptop. I cannot believe the number of morons who insist that they will continue to run Windows 7. I saw the same thing happen with Windows 98, then Windows XP.
The amount of money I made cleaning up infected computers operated by idiots like you was ridiculous. Major updates are. But if you love tinkering and babysitting your PC then go ahead, upgrade every week for all I care. As it is, I do have W10 on a couple of machines and see no real benefit to it. In the past when MS released a crap version of Windows ie, Vista , people could just wait for MS to get their shit together.
Not anymore…. I just finally upgraded to 10 a couple weeks ago, held out as long as I could. I started with Windows 3. Windows 8. I have never seen Metro again after having installed Classic Shell. I use Windows 8. Iron Heart: Windows 8. Win 8. It is a very solid OS.
My Win 10 machines randomly hung for about two years for no obvious reason, while they have settled, it remains a rubbish OS. A few years ago I purchased cheap 8. Microsoft does not care what people want. They change and rename and take-away tools for no real reason.
I see nothing in Win 10 that is better, easier, or faster than Win7. Office is also a complete mess and has been since Office They force us to move. It is not about a fear of change- it is about junk programing.
At the very least- they should have skins that give the user the same experience as the Win7 or even XP. It is fine to have programing in the background of the new software. I wish they would just make us pay to keep what we want.
Win10 is just a little better than Win8. Edge is pure garbage. They are the biggest but far from the best. They are only around because we have limited choices and they are biggest. I seriously doubt users where telling them to get rid of start button and programs — or they really want to type search of everything.
Or they love that Office Ribbon- instead of a commonsense toolbar. Office — predominantly Office , with only a handful using office for dealing with the.
Reasons given — Ribbon is terrible and hurts productivity even after training and daily usage. Recurring fees to use software unacceptable. Many of those who moved or were forced to , , or have had me roll them back to Users that got home computers loaded with Win 10 are universally telling me to buy refurb Dells, wipe Win 10, and load Win 7 with a correct initial setup, limited patching, and then Win Updates set to Never turned on only when an important patch arises.
Of note — not one of the many hundreds of computers has ever been affected by an unpatched exploit. In fact, no issues across the board except for the handful of issues caused by a user clicking on something they should not have. And these are never protected by a patch or even by anti-malware software. I would upgrade to windows what ever… but why pay for Microsoft l….
Again and again and again. Windows 10 is a garbage os installed it two weeks ago and within some minutes I got a blue screen of death poorly programmed kernel…. Stay with Windows 7 as long as you can. Windows 10 is a mess. Biannual annual service packs and you are at risk of bluescreen and random file deletion with every update.
The updates are to satisfy the ego of MS CEO Nadella who sees Windows as a mobile os like android, not an OS where people depend on stability and predictability to get work done. The mobile update cadence that Nadella forced on users has no justifiable reason desktop users at all. Completely false. Linux updates can completely destroy the entire OS just as much, if not more than, Windows Problems with updates—blue screens, drivers, etc.
Nothing has changed since XP days when all sorts of problems could be attributed to an update—google around and you will find all sorts of problems XP, Vista, and Windows 7, 8 have had. Security updates or newer software ex. There are various other more important layers all of which combined together ex. The only thing that Windows is good for is ensuring that the plethora of idiots in this day and age have something to point and click at.
The expert you all come here to take advice from runs the very OS so many of you spend all your time bashing on. Wow, this thread makes me nostalgic for the old Firefox vs. Pale Moon vs. Chromia vs. Vivaldi bloodbaths. Next would be , then Vista. Beyond that, too many problems and you have to damn near be a programmer. No can do. Bottom line is windows 7 is more user friendly and works great for most users needs.
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