It's over for Windows 7 baby ducks at last. Market share has fallen to 0.58% once people realised that Linux supports their old hardware better and companies are using AI to migrate their legacy apps to Windows 11. Most sites block Windows 7 traffic as they realised most of Windows 7 user agents are AI scraper bots and not actual users.Now Firefox has finally dropped support with the final ESR patch coming out on February 24, 2026, Six years and 1 month of extra support given you've had enough now you need to go to Linuxmint.com and get an operating system that looks just like Windows 7 but won't mine crypto or use you as a residential proxy.There is only one Windows now, and that is 11, all legacy versions will be replaced as TPM-less hardware starts breaking down from old age and Linux works on the survivors. LTSCanards are next to be dropped.
To be frank I have a hard time believing most of the remaining usage is actual desktop users and not like some appliance or kiosk that's long since become part of a botnet. Sure old people are very tenacious about not updating their hardware but Windows 7 hardware hasn't been for sale in about 15 years even on the very cheap end, since these same people don't clean out their fans surely they must all be broken now. 1 in 200 seems too high.
>>108179527>a duckling is born, emerges from the egg, and "imprints" on the first thing it sees>A wintard is born, and imprints on the first OS they use and are unable to use anything elseit's a metaphor. >I'll never switch from Windows 98SE! It's the best version ever!>I'll never switch from Windows XP! It's the best version ever!>I'll never switch from Windows 7! It's the best version ever!>I'll never switch from Windows 8(.1)! It's the best version ever!>I'll never switch from Windows 10! It's the best version ever!
>Companies are of using AI to migrate their legacy apps saaaaarman i always thought you guys were trolls but you really are corporate shills kek
>>108179492The thing that impressed me was that all the 7iggers insisted they were sticking with it for their vewwy speshul honest hardware and software that only ran on deadshitos 7.Imagine my shock when they started shitting out literal hourly baby duck cope threads when browsers started dropping support, and their market share started plummeting.
>>108179567You're almost certainly right. The only places I've seen Windows 7 in the last five years is on ancient POS terminals in Poundland and running the order display at my local pizza shop.
>>108179590Is this how Epstein lured children? By imprinting on them? Maybe I need more dinners with pedophiles like Bill Gates to better understand this.
Also a reminder to Windows 11 users.
>>108179602steam dropping support was the literal day of the rope for them, plebeyan gaymers
>>108179637Not to me. I'm not a low-functioning autistic with learning and comprehension difficulties, so I can handle the objectively slight UI changes each version.You could put a Win95 user in front of Win11, and he'd be able to navigate it. /g/ can't clear this bar without having a coronary (though to be fair, many of them can't take a shit without risking cardiacvascular distress).
>>108179527Why do cucks^Wducks lie about this all the time?Is it some sort of "if I pretend I didn't understand the insult, I wasn't really insulted, me so smart" hypercope?
>>108179672YesDuh
>>108179672I thought it was because you people know even less about technology than fucking /v/ - the vidya
>>108179744>nigger they are getting rid of the control panel2 more weeks every week since 2012. That's 14 years ago. Most /g/ posters weren't even alive.
>>108179767all you gaymers know is proficiency in getting fucked in the ass by several megacorps at once, but the best part is that you "take pride" in it, guess it is logical, to act gay, for a gaymer. but even then you make the lgbt collective appear pure and trad with your sheer degeneracy
>>108179672No arrow
>>108179590The thing is, I'll never switch from Windows 10. It just werks.
>>108179492>Linux supports their old hardware betterlmao
A few months ago I decided to go back to Windows 7 but then I went back to Windows 10 once my nostalgia wore off.
>>108179492>Linux supports their old hardware better and companies are using AI to migrate their legacy apps to Windows 11you lie about this same way you lie about your gender.
>>108179878And a few years ago you probably said you would never switch from Windows 7... before that....Eventually you'll be forced by lack of updates or software losing support to downgrade to Windows 11 or 12 or 13... and then you'll say again "I'm never switching" and it still won't be true.
>>108179672>picsheeit that might be it, why you don't hear about the >I'm sticking with 7 furevahrguess they all ropped the day steam dropped support for it, based gaben making gaymers 41%'d themselves
>>108179878People like you are mentally ill. The OS is dead. You'll get wrecked by malware and become part of a botnet, like the 7ggers.
>>108179996too late, they all roped
>>108179492>>108179590>>108179602You have autism/aspergers/OCD and are obsessed with this subject you have latched onto.
>>108180012>you have mental illness because you discuss technologywhy are you here
>>108180012>I'm never switching from jeetdowns 7so they were lying? it's only fair we laugh at them and call them niggers and faggots
>>108180012Its all Microsoft shills. They have a janny that deletes posts for defending Windows 7. I don't know what they have against this OS. Barely anybody uses it.
>>108179590i've used 98, xp, vista, 7, 10i've tried 11 and got back to 10, because it's retardedif there were drivers and support i would go back to 98 or xpany feature they added after xp is worthless, even automatic drivers installationI specially need to avoid connecting to the internet before installing drivers, because it shit will install some retarded obsolete versions that needs to be cleaned up
>>108179492Windows 10 LTSC exists and works why would you use W7 ?
>>108179637Everyone using windows 11 can't wait for it to die tho
>>108180282When win10 with all its version is no longer supported (LTSC IOT EOL is in 2032) what will you do? Win11 LTSC IOT? Win11 is way worse and jeeted, and if we continue like this win12 will be a vibecoded react webpage on top of chromium with only a prompt input forum to command it.I'd say lonix, but userland linux is a mess thanks to ebussy-sama et al. But maybe valve will solve it, let see.
>>108180369and it'll be replaced by 12 which will be even worsewe're beyond the point where you can even muster an excuse not to learn linux
>>108179527 chink/jeet peasant lingo.
>>108179918>>108179888???
>>108180399Im dualbooting Mint and it works so im chilling.
>>108179492why does ms pay jeet retards to shill against win7
>>108180274>i would go back to the version im baby ducked onYeah, that's what the thread is about.
>>108180428Microsoft is company that have jeet as CEO and all the higher ups are mentally retarded CEO too.Microsoft will keep going down the drain unless they kick out all the jeets which is not going to happen and Microsoft eventually stop making OS as it is because they will make it unusable completely. Elon Musk the jeet lover always said that Americans are stupid thus we need Jeets to solve the problem but as you can see jeets can't even figure an OS and these retards are now working on rockets.
>>108180428they don't have to, they killed it already, you need to use old hardware to even run it
>>108180493and yet here we are
>>108180623this is just linux people with their schadenfreudenow to stay on windows you have to accept ever more humiliating concessions
>>108180655dont linux troons have better things to do than poorly troll /g/?
>>108180683shouldn't have spammed /g/ with your tetarded OS chocies, the humiliation ritual will vontinue
>>108179888I've had a far easier time getting older Windows games running in Linux than I ever did in 10.
>>108180706i dont know what tf youre saying and dont care
>>108180840let ne spell it for retards: thehumiliationritualwillcontinue
>>108179527>hating on Jeff in the big '26Are you with Trump or not, chud? Reminder to patriots to never trust a Nazi. They've always been our enemies.
>>108180932sorry troony im not getting it
>>108180683you're going to try to claim the high ground now, after seething about linux for a decade?no, you will get laughed at until you either submit to king jeet or come to your senses and concede to linux
>>108181149high road*
>>108181073oh you ARE getting the humiliation ritual, thoroughly
>>108179567McDonalds uses Windows 7 on it's ordering screens
>>108181231Windows 10*
>>108181188ok spergy
> Those to whom the king had entrusted me, observing how ill I was clad, ordered a tailor to come next morning, and take measure for a suit of clothes. This operator did his office after a different manner from those of his trade in Europe. He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calculation. But my comfort was, that I observed such accidents very frequent, and little regarded.
>>108181379works fine if you don't mind using old drivers for hardware that's 5 years oldyou can't hold onto that forever, you'll be obsoleted out of existence, you're making the linux vs w11 choice sooner or later
>>108179492>There is only one Windows now, and that is 11>1 in 4 Windows are 10 per your own picOP is a flaming faggot.
>>108181442mmm no there are kernel extensions and SS. anyway id sooner go homo on mac than use linux
>>108181470you can't kernel extend your way to usable drivers on new hardwarethe 30 series is the last one that supports 7, it was made on shit samsung silicon and the 3090s are expensive as shit even used, compared to new, more efficient ones with better features
>>108181358seethe
>>108181482i think there are third party drivers but why would i need new hardware anyway. aaa games arent even worth playing
>>108181499because you'll want to buy new hardware eventuallyand somehow i doubt you'll be okay with a 500w 3090
>>108181513>kek, cool story, keep seething and bumping your own humiliation ritual thread
>>108181514>why would i need new hardware anyway>because you'll want to buy new hardware eventuallynot even talking to a human lol
>>108181526>i'm just going to hold onto what i have for 20 years!!!!no, you just refuse to give a real answer and we both know it
>>108181524yeah thats not what humiliation ritual means and while you might think youre owning some hypothetical person, thats just an autistic delusion and everyone normal views you as an annoying retard.
>>108181535i still have a p4 with winxp that is 20 years old...
>>108181549yes, havenot useit's stuck in your attic gathering dust for the sake of nostalgia
>>108181566no its right next to my desk i use it occasionally
>>108181542it's my pleasure to contribute to humiliating you, you're welcome
>>108179527
Windows 7 works fine on my machine. It's all i use, never needed anything else.
still using W10 until the extended security updates run out and then I guess I'm finally moving to linux because everything I've seen, heard and read about W11 sounds like the most retarded, unusable and cancerous jank and I do not want some shitty AI bothering me in my personal computer
he roped
Windows as a whole is dying.In 2016 it was 90-95% marketshareIn 2026 its probably around 60% realistically as people jump ship to linux for gaming and mac as a professional workstation OS.10 years its lost around 30-40% of its userbaseWith linux becoming much more user friendly with distros like zorinOS, gaming just working for the most part and the only real hurdle being professional software like adobe, video software, music production.Even then linux will probably get affinity in the future ported, better davinci resolve support, better anticheat support.Its over for windows microslop.
>>108182633uh oh, melty
>>108182633
>>108182496the day steam dropped support for w7 he made a gigacopium thread, that was his last shart of defeat before he roped, based as fuck
>>108179492>Now Firefox has finally dropped support with the final ESR patch coming out on February 24, 2026why would i give a shit about furryfucks when latest chrome werks?anti7 trannies need to get the rope
>>108179492I am going to be honest, windows 7 was the last good windows.Windows 10 is what made me switch to Linux and it makes me laugh when people cope by saying windows 10 was good, it was absolutely not, I still remember the first thing I ever did when using it was nuking the shit out of Cortana. People don't realize this but Copilot is just Cortana on steroids.Anyway, been on Linux for about half a decade now, and don't think I ever feel the need to use windows again, it feels good to be free.
Imagine how many are using W7 offline or in a vm. Only breadtubers/MS employees continue feeling asshurt when somebody says they don't wanna use W11.
>>108180410That only applies to the HD 7000 series and newer, and they still perform worse on Linux due to lacking Vulkan support and just the fundamental inferiority of Linux drivers. If they use the HD 6000 series or older, or if they're on Nvidia, Linux has horrible legacy support.
Don't care, still running XP
>>108183058>what is ltsc
>>108181566Nta, but I still use my P4 machine regularly. Its fun.
>>108183162Sorry friend, it's too late for me to go back to windows now.
>>108179590what about me, i hate every version of windows ever released
>>108181549I have a AMD K7 machine that is 23, the GPU is newer because my old 9600 XT kicked the bucket.
>no firefox supportXPgods already just use supermium/mypal/palemoon.If something doesn't work anymore, you fix it. This is a foreign idea to updooters who panic as soon as they haven't sucked the teet for 5 seconds.
>>108179590initiation or imprinting is a side term. the duck means reductionism, a simple spirit to "remove the bloat" and later to revise one, two, three.. the whole system.all those "re" words, like refactoring, generally mean of getting back. only the dumbest duck may actually "imprint" the thing.contrary, updoooters seem to fall into one big herd. doesnt even mean Windows, can be Linux or another thing. they hold on "current thing" as strong as you may say its "imprinting".
>>108179602nobody cares about yer managerial statistician nonsense, even you yerself. otherwise you wouldnt post those cope topics.>>108179638ye, its over, hehehe. never did steam thing, there always were some good nosteam crackers and game devs were usually generous to share the game later on, after updooot crowd payed the thing, because, tech savvy also bear duck spirit.>>108179672nah, those some singular retarded sewer-tunnel rat obsessed with jews. GNU/GPL tards are those, real kekolds with their fig leaf "protection".>>108179936nobody will run the "current thing" marathon forever, including you. its only a matter of time when you switch off the plug from yer evergreen compukter or be called a duck or something alike.>>108179954huh, talking to sameself, fagman? hehehe>>108180145sometimes they want to talk to a mastermind like me, they invoke me with these topic, hehehe. though frequent invocation is prohibited.>>108180155the cope continues..>>108180282i will use anything that fulfills the purpose, i can use W10 from W7. W10 is an aquarium OS, so its not the main thing. the OS doesnt generally remove you from evolving another OS - recall the story about BSD OS devs working from Mac OS, bad? not at all, they are just tools>>108180418doesnt matter what, matters where. calm/minimal/chill environment may be achived with, say NetBSD. then what? dualbooting isnt comfy way though, you have to run VMs, but running windows (or another OS) in VMs caps the performance and you cannot play games there, its only suitable for developer.>>108180493hardware becomes obsolete, that is true, it even becomes obsolete in the sense that it is emulated, imagine that you can take some super-duper new hardware, insert emulation layer before it and run.. anything. how to kill it?software won over hardware, though, it won with OSes, microsoft started to dictate how hardware should be and now they will lose to the next "thing". what will be the next thing?
>>108179492>companies are using AI to migrate their legacy apps to Windows 11This doesn't affect the version I already have, which is almost inevitably superior to whatever "enhancements" the AI shits out.>Most sites block Windows 7 trafficHaven't seen this but it's trivial to make your user agent string anything, and even easier for scraper bots to do.>Now Firefox has finally dropped support with the final ESR patch coming out on February 24, 2026, Six years and 1 month of extra supportI've been using Supermium and it works great. It's just a recent Chromium build compiled to still work on XP, 7 and 8.>but won't mine crypto or use you as a residential proxy"Muh updates" fud. Have a decent router with firewall or NAT, block ads, don't go to super dodgy sites, and don't run untrustworthy stuff (all things you should do on 11 as well), and you'll generally be fine.>all legacy versions will be replacedYou can still buy a new Windows 11 PC and upgrade it to 10 or 7. If using 10, it's probably wise to see if the BIOS has an option to disable TPM if you don't need it, since that will prevent Windows Update from reverting it to 11 if it does run.
>>108185397The support code for it was removed in Chromium after version 110 or 111 or something like that. It is not something that can be fixed on the OS side.If you want aero then you need to install Supermium which adds all the legacy compatibility code back and works on XP and Vista too.I recommend and use supermium as an actual web browser, the chromium browser is just a demonstration to prove that most Electron etc. apps can work as well.
>>108182561>in 2016, we didn't count tablets like chromebooks as computers>in 2026, we do>in 2016, we didn't have ai bots (all running troonix) downloading every page on the www, skewing statcounter etc. results>in 2026, we do>in 2016, we didn't have google getting their hooks into schoolkids by giving them chromebooks and google docs>in 2026, we doIt's really quite simple when you think about it.Of course, you're all going to be "it's OK when Google does it to dislodge MS". I'm old enough to remember when it was "OK when MS does it to dislodge IBM", and when it was "OK when IBM does it to dislodge DEC".
Man tea is good I'm gonna make more for myself brb.
>>108183008steam never dropped 7 tho? they just put up a banner then disabled auto updates at some point so it still worked fine on win7 for a long time until they added a win10 check to the installer and zlib(?) compression on some downloads both of which are easily bypassable in a couple ways
>>108181873ok retard
>>108183114>and they still perform worse on Linux due to lacking Vulkan supportRetard.https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1qljqz6/14_year_old_109_gpu_still_going_strong_thanks_to/
>>108179590Your point is>If I force you not to do what you want it means you have changed your opinionNo retard, it literally just became impossible to do what I want so I obviously was forced to change.Well, not yet ofc. I'm still on Windows 7 :^)
>>108180012he's the baby duck schizo. he's the only dude on this board that ever uses the term, he only ever uses the term when refering to windows users and he just goes off on these repetitive autism spirals about it. it's fucking tiresome. he's probably the valve drm schizo dude too.
>an entire thread with the most blatantly obvious samefagging from the mindbroken indian who has been upset people still use windows 7 for yearswew lad
>>108179492Linux is not even in the graph
>>108179987possible but unlikely, I used 7 until 2023 with on issues whatsoevermeanwhile w11 is getting wrecked by its own updates
Feel like giving back today even though I hate pretty much all of you mouthbreathing normalfaggots on this board, but the jeet OP and his decade long asshurt is more obnoxious so here ya go.github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7
Today ai workforce works at Microsoft. They gave up years ago.
>>108192506Maybe because is a graph for Windows versions?
