I know some users held back on the upgrade while Windows 10 still had support, but there's many improvements to privacy & consent in Windows 7 that are worth considering, now that both are about to be equally out of their support window.
It's one of the last versions where the modal dialogs ask "Yes" or "No", instead of "Yes" and "Not now", "Maybe later", or "Ask again tomorrow".
I have an old laptop that boots Windows 7 and in my opinion, it's peak Windows (having used everything from 98SE onward, including 2K). It feels modern in a way that older entries don't but doesn't have the annoying and user-hostile elements of newer entries. The visual style is slightly dated feeling but it wouldn't take a whole lot of work to fix that.
I still have Windows7 on my fathers computer and it's more than enough for him (Firefox + FreeCell). We are behind NAT and he doesn't open anything except for a couple of pages + has uBlock.
The whole hype around Win10 loosing support is way overblown…
The third option is to install some Linux like Ubuntu or Linux Mint on it.
It is nowadays actually easier to install Ubuntu Linux than a Windows. Just be sure to back up your data to an external hard drive, and restore it from there after the install.
"Statcounter Stats Go Wonky This Month" wouldn't have made enough clicks, I suppose. Even the wording of the 2nd paragraph misses the point - this is obviously not statistical fluctuation. They didn't even bother to look into the more granular data either.
I just can't understand why Microsoft can just remove all this shit from windows 11. Guys we don't want adds, one drive and all that crap I know you make money on it but let people come to it naturally when it's forced it turns us a way. I keep hearing stories of entire medical offices, small businesses going mac/linux for the sake of not being forced to candy crush it up.
haven't run windows in ages (15yrs). Can't even make sense of windows anymore since at work moved to Mac. Unfortunately, looks like I will need to now since for a laptop (thinkpad - AMD - sleep/suspend might be a dead end)
So what's the 'best' edition of windows ('best' for privacy/least crapware/adware/AI slop)? I can get any version.
I think it's great that Microsoft are still job-creators after all these years. Just think of all the extra cyber-security jobs they creating by making windows 11 adware and AI infested garbage!
I recently added Windows 7 support to an open source app I run, Kindle Comic Converter.
It was as easy as downgrading a bunch of dependencies (PySide6, numpy) and created a legacy build, and the Windows 7 version got like 2% of downloads (~200). I assume it works since I've gotten no complaints and I don't have a Windows 7 machine to test haha, Windows 7 in UTM crashes a lot for me on macOS ARM.
Man people are still using this. I really only did this since I added macOS 10.14 support (prior minimum was macOS 12) and most of the work needed was already mostly done by that. In theory I could even get macOS 10.10 support, but that would require downgrading Qt6 to Qt5
I recently bought a laptop and that came with Windows 11.
After hours of trying to work around the OOB "experience" that really really wants to you to sign up for a Microsoft account I finally managed to circumvent it.
After using it for a while I actually like it. It's smooth and no major glitches.
Then I didn't use my laptop for a while, logged in and was greeted with
"Let's finish setting up your account". Only options are "Remind me again x days later" and "Ok"
This is so obnoxious behavior it really makes me want to just roll over the whole machine with Linux.
I wish the clowns from the marketing department hadn't taken over the Windows product division.
My laptop is already setup thank you very much. I don't need your condesdencing dark pattern UX BS in my face.
Windows 7 was the last good Microsoft OS. After Windows 7, I switched to Linux, and the last Windows 7 machine was turned off early this year. I'm surprised there isn't a corporate push for "Windows 7 Forever".
> After that date, users are encouraged to enroll their devices in the Extended Security Updates program for free, which will grant them twelve more months of security updates and plenty of time to plan an upgrade to something supported.
Can we as a society either fund QT/GTK or make a good alternative to it that is as solid as Winform was in terms of GUI principles for Linux?
No matter what Linux distro it is, the core issue with it are QT/GTK, they will never give a user peace of mind like winforms did, a winforms program just feels "good" to use, sort of like the feeling you get from using a website done primarily in HTML (Like hardware news or old reddit)...
A lot of the charm that old windows versions had is exactly based on the GUI framework of the operating system, distros are nice and all but they cannot change fundamentally what is wrong with the user interface of QT/GTK.
Anyways until people figure out what is wrong (which is by the way, also wrong with UWP and WinUI 3... Windows 11 did semi recently get ClassicShell support, I recommend you just moving the taskbar to the side and changing the classicshell logo back to the windows 7/vista button... almost makes you feel like you're using a trash operating system.
This is very weird. And it happened mostly in Asia and Africa. In Asia, Windows 7 supposedly jumped to 41% share in Sept 27th. Obviously this cannot be true.
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The whole hype around Win10 loosing support is way overblown…
It is nowadays actually easier to install Ubuntu Linux than a Windows. Just be sure to back up your data to an external hard drive, and restore it from there after the install.
1 in 4 people did not switch to Windows 7 in one week https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk.... It's really quite jarring this is not the focus of discussion.
What's wrong with Win 11 exactly?
So what's the 'best' edition of windows ('best' for privacy/least crapware/adware/AI slop)? I can get any version.
It was as easy as downgrading a bunch of dependencies (PySide6, numpy) and created a legacy build, and the Windows 7 version got like 2% of downloads (~200). I assume it works since I've gotten no complaints and I don't have a Windows 7 machine to test haha, Windows 7 in UTM crashes a lot for me on macOS ARM.
Man people are still using this. I really only did this since I added macOS 10.14 support (prior minimum was macOS 12) and most of the work needed was already mostly done by that. In theory I could even get macOS 10.10 support, but that would require downgrading Qt6 to Qt5
I recently bought a laptop and that came with Windows 11.
After hours of trying to work around the OOB "experience" that really really wants to you to sign up for a Microsoft account I finally managed to circumvent it.
After using it for a while I actually like it. It's smooth and no major glitches.
Then I didn't use my laptop for a while, logged in and was greeted with
"Let's finish setting up your account". Only options are "Remind me again x days later" and "Ok"
This is so obnoxious behavior it really makes me want to just roll over the whole machine with Linux.
I wish the clowns from the marketing department hadn't taken over the Windows product division. My laptop is already setup thank you very much. I don't need your condesdencing dark pattern UX BS in my face.
Plenty of time to switch to Linux, you mean.
No matter what Linux distro it is, the core issue with it are QT/GTK, they will never give a user peace of mind like winforms did, a winforms program just feels "good" to use, sort of like the feeling you get from using a website done primarily in HTML (Like hardware news or old reddit)...
A lot of the charm that old windows versions had is exactly based on the GUI framework of the operating system, distros are nice and all but they cannot change fundamentally what is wrong with the user interface of QT/GTK.
Anyways until people figure out what is wrong (which is by the way, also wrong with UWP and WinUI 3... Windows 11 did semi recently get ClassicShell support, I recommend you just moving the taskbar to the side and changing the classicshell logo back to the windows 7/vista button... almost makes you feel like you're using a trash operating system.
You can tell your product is crap when people actively downgrade rather than risk an upgrade to the latest version.
I’m really thankful for Microsoft. I can learn a lot about how not to behave by looking at what they do.