>"Don't worry dear I already got you Windows 7!">The windows 7 at home :Anyone actually used this on a consumer level (beside people being scammed?)
>>107816386>consumer levelwhy would consumers use an ATM OS?theres no support for that either now (afaik), may as well just use The Real Thing™
"We have Windows 7 at home" is the line. Why would you bother with the meme if you don't even know the setup?
W7 is already incredibly light and efficient by default, the "bloated" versions run buttery smooth on everything unlike W10/11. Why would you need that thing in the OP?
>>107816386>Anyone actually used this on a consumer level (beside people being scammed?)not as far as i've seen, by the time embedded compact 7 came out, windows ce wasn't something you saw in consumer products (at least ones that presented as a computer), unless it was some super cheap chinese netbook.
>>107816386Just move to Linux you pussy.
>>107816386Windows 7 current user reporting in
>>107818419Based.
>>107816386Can this thing run all the software the normal Win7 can?>>107818419Same. Everything else sucks, and fuck conformists anyway.
>>107816799Windows 7 came out in 2009, it was not lightweight at all back then, requiring more RAM than a lot of computers had, and needing twice as much as what most computers had at the time to run smoothly, alongside needing a beefy gpu (at the time) for Aero.
>>107819283None have had the soul that 7 has, due to Aero. I have 8GB of RAM installed in my laptop that I'm typing this reply on. I've had no scalability issues. Granted, this laptop is mostly for media, entertainment, or education. I don't authenticate into anything via 7. I have been using BypassESU for updates. Still. >Common Sense AV 2026 Edition>Ublock Origin Still fully functional, despite the shenanigans Youtube and Mozilla have concocted.
>>1078194727 is trivial to run now, and has been for seven years, and even mid range machines at the time ran it well enough. The issue is that 99% of consumer hardware is low end or extremely low end. It would not run well on a P4 or Celeron system from the time, nor would it run well on an Atom system, all of which were still common in consumer hands in 2009. Pentium Dual Core (not Pentium D) systems and Core 2 could run it smoothly provided they had enough ram, but a lot of systems didn't have 4 GB at the time, and anything less is going to result in heavy use of the page file, which on mechanical hard disks means a serious hit to performance. And of course we can't forget how extremely common igpus like the Intel GMA 950 struggled with Aero effects.This meant that even if most computers could run Windows 7, and hardware built with it in mind wouldn't be too expensive, there was still a lot of hardware that either didn't support it, or rang poorly with it. Hence the need for things like Starter and Embedded.
>>107819549Based breakdown
>>107819283As much as I would say that for XP, I disagree for 7. Core2Duo E8400 + 2GB of DDR2 + cheap $25 9500GT, all from 2008 or before, have been running Win7 perfectly for me for ages and still do, in 1920x1200. Especially the 9500GT was never called "beefy" even back then.I admit >>107819549 is probably right though that older hardware and igpus would struggle, I never tried myself.
>>107819277In a weird way, if one has true technical acumen, one has a responsibility, duty, or right, to dissent against Microslop, for force feeding AI down our throats, fraudulent TPM requirements, nullifying perfectly good hardware, and contributing to the dumbfuckery going on with RAM and other components prices. From a normal consumers point of view, and not a consoomers, I'll do my best to never buy anything from any tech company that is laden with hypocrisy, crony capitalism, and evil procession. I will gladly take the action required to block all ads at every level possible. I'll host my own LLM as a legitimate tool to use, locally, via container. and have gladly DeGoogled my life, because I'm not about that botnet lifeAI will likely never do what techbros swear it's going to do. Perhaps when LLMs integrate with quantum capacity. Even then, it will be relative.
>>107820384LLMs are a grift.
I remember having a thin client that ran Windows 7 off from ram that never saved any changes until the end of the session. Was this the one?
>>107821100Sounds like Windows 7 Embedded. The company I used to work for had HP thin clients with Thin Pro OS. The connection manager allowed for booting into a variant of Windows 7. I'm assuming it was embedded. I don't see why it would have been the POS version.
>>107816443The idea of a minimalist OS appeals only to tinker schizos like myself. You get something free of any bloat or useless stuff you don't care about, then tweak, mod, add and remove everything else to taste.Whether or not this particular Windows version retains enough juice to power regular software, no idea, but this dream was finally realized in POSReady 2009, which's still my daily driver.
>>107819277>Can this thing run all the software the normal Win7 can?I want to know this as well
>>107821784>tinker schizos10/10 Memes aside, at least you have specialty skills that normies don't.
>>107819549>atom commonLol
>>107816386I used to play Age of Empires on a WinCE GPS.
