What if the entire Windows 7 source code was leaked today on 4chan just like Windows XP source code leak in 2020?
Nothing would change, people on websites like 4chan are just low IQ lazy chuds to do anything of it.
>>108933788It would still be proprietary spyware trash cuck non-free software so you would go to jail if you would do anything with that code.WinTroon 7 would still be the exact same spycuckware like before.
Modern Linux would still be better
>>108933788Internet would be flooded with knockoffs done by Indian scammers looking to steal you crypto shit and passwords.Same thing as when Claude Code src were leaked.But I personally would like to take a loot at it, especially if it had not only kernel src, but also some side meals, like WPF, apps like bitlocker and such.So that one could make win7 that actually works, patch most obvious bugs and backdoors etc. Probably a shit ton of work, but possible.WinXP code was fake and gay, it was a partial leak of windows server code, that's not true XP.
>>108933788that would be great, they know it so they are keeping it buried to their graves lol
leaked source code isn't as useful as you may think, it still has to be laundered through clean room or (new) via LLM to be usable without copyright restrictions.
many windows components are unnecessary for workstation, the first iteration over the source would be a proper dissection of unnecessary parts, assuming the fact it would build normally, i bet it wont.
>>108933788Nothing would happen, all the people in the Windows 7 community who are dedicated to the development are discord/reddit trannies who are too afraid of Microsoft
>>108934427begone pedomason
Just use LLM to decompile it.
>>108934674>oh no he found our secret!>quick, call him a pedo! and a mason in case that doesn't work!
>>108933788Depends if it was a clean release version, or a broken development branch. The 2k3 source code that was leaked was a pre-release broken mess.
>>108933788Nothing. Just like nothing happened with the XP source leak.
>>108934783stinky mason
>>108933788I have an offline VM for the odd Windows task as the standard SP1 ISO isn't pozzed but it still runs most things you'd want to run.
>>108935249Clay smells nice.
>>108933788you'd still need a proper 10/11/xp leak to bring the "best" parts of each into it (something about audio getting gutted after xp, dx12 even though it's shit from 10, honestly I dont think 11 actually has anything but who knows).
>>108933788Microsoft would shut down any legitimate fork leaving us with this >>108933828
We just need WDDM and Aero to be XP/ReactOS compatible.
>>108933788You don't really want her. You just remember how zesty she looked to you in high school. What you really want is a XP-like UI and Wine on Linux. Your original art class gf hit the wall and works at Home Depot, you gotta let it go and start rough banging the Japanese robo Linux gf.
windows 7 isn't that great, windows 10 changed a lot of things, and even back in 2015 we started seeing dx12 games that can't even run on windows 7.DX12 for windows 7 required developers to actually port to game to windows 7, since I believe it would remove important features.Windows 7 is perfect for 2009 hardware. Nothing runs better on a core 2 duo + mobile intel HD graphics than windows 7.But with new hardware, linux + wine/proton is actually decent.
>>108933788Nothing would happen on paper, but there would be very suspiciously fast advancements in W7 meme projects and maybe some increased support for modern standards.
>>108933788I legit tried to find it but I could not.I'm sorry.Probably would't share it anytime soon even if I did find it but I'd definitely give it a go to making it run well on modern architecture and debloat it too.
>>108934674>>108934783>>108935249>>108935328For samefagging to be effective someone else would have to understand what you're schizoing off about
>>108935409> WDDM and AeroWDDM is the single worst thing that ever happened to windows. The zero latency hardware accelerated UI was all torn out for a transparent window gimmick. Computing died the day vista was released.
>>108933808Lmao good joke
>>108935772gdi is separate from the WDDM.it's sad that every gdi application became more sluggish after removing hardware gdi acceleration, but the changes made in windows 7 (maybe vista? I swear it was done in 7) are a huge improvement to reducing latency for windowed opengl/etc applications. Because on windows XP (maybe vista) those games were being bitblt into a window AKA: gpu->CPU->gpu, but in 7 they compose the window inside of the gpu.I THINK at least, maybe I'm wrong.Then in windows 10 and more so in 11, they added in independant flip, which unfortunately is impossible to force on depending on MPO and stuff, but it should make desktop fullscreen applications (and maybe windowed apps?) run at the same low latency as fullscreen exclusive (which if your resolution did not match the display, it would cause all your windows to be reoriented and I swear in XP counterstrike/tf2 would permanently change my display resolution/move all my desktop icons if a game crashed in FSE).
>>108935904> gpu->CPU->gpuUtterly false. BitBlt was gpu -> gpu. BitBlt was instantaneous, about the lowest latency physically possible. I suppose its possible something was fucked up about your particular setup. Maybe your graphics driver was messed up and did not provide GDI acceleration functions. These are required for gpu -> gpu bitblt, the fallback function does gpu->CPU->gpu
>>108933788The same thing as when the Windows XP source got leaked: Nothing.Windows is such utter garbage spaghetti code, that nobody can do anything with it anyway.Microsoft can't code.
>>108933808>Modern Linux is better than Win7Sadly untrue.Modern Linux's fatass is way too fat to run on oldish computers while Win7 flies on them.And WINE still can't run too many Windows software while Win7 can run them all except a few very latest ones.>>108935451That would be great.
>>108936042Yeah you are right, the difference between windows XP and windows 7 is not too far away from each other as I thought, but there are subtle improvements is displaying a window.I think I saw a better video than this but this covers it decently.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3wTajGZOsA
>>108933800This, we could never so out own distressed, windows should still be source available though
>>108936206>distressedDistro
>>108935706I'm only one of these posts.
>>108933788ReactOS would become more tolerable.
>>108936317they can't use the code
>>108933788Exploits would likely be found, some useful to those maintaining installs, some that open it to vulnerabilities.It's not like modded versions would suddenly become popular. All serious devs know that shit is radioactive and any serious work would attract lawyers like flies on turds.Knowledge of internal systems would probably slowly percolate through the internet. Some projects would improve as a result, though nobody would admit a link for obvious reasons. On the whole a leak would be of benefit to the world, but by no means world changing.
>>108933788Would it really help anyone?It's not like you could maintain it or make hardware vendors backport their drivers, or update the driver model to 10s.And I think wine devs would refuse to look at leaked code for license reasons.
>>108935772you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded
>>108933788There is AI, at some point it will be strong enough to recreate Win7, no need for source code.
>>108933788Would only benefit criminals/security researchers. W7/XP don't require modern software to be useful. I can think of something good about it, an internal detail, not that I'd share the reason.
>>108933800use Malus.
Idk why this hasn't been done
>>108933788We would end up with a similar amount of community projects derived from it. 0.
It would be mostly useless as it's very outdated.The effort needed to udpate it to security vulns and recent standards would be to costly to be worth it.
i would not care. i would not use it.
>>108933788>Wait, it's all just Vista?>Always has been.
>>108936139depends on what you mean by "modern Linux". Trying to run current GNOME or KDE on a laptop from 2010? Not great, if I had to guess.But LXDE, XFCE, Openbox, IceWM and tiling WMs will certainly be faster. You'll get security updates and games via proton/steam (which doesn't support win 7).Only reason to use 7 is if you have to use something that WINE doesn't run.
>>108935904>removing hardware gdi acceleration>maybe I'm wrongyes>>108936042>GDI acceleration functionsGDI are primitives used for GUI rendering (apps, their windows), it doesnt affect games or 3D. it doesnt need "hardware acceleration" meme. after windows7, the driver was infested with GPU meme that saves memory (doesnt accelerate anything) when there are more than 4 windows open. thats all the "hardware acceleration" does.GUI windows are mostly static, they display some information and switch between states. small animations that may happen in those windows are insignificant to performance. windows rendering was bloated because there is no independent quality control>>108936317even schizo Terry said that making another Linux would be retarded
>>108933788The license is what matters, not the source code. The only thing it could be useful for is finding security flaws and backdoors. You cant use it for anything else without getting sued.
>>108933788It would be just as completely useless as the XP leak was.
>>108940528The GDI driver functions are absolutely hardware accelerated. But that is actually just an aside. The main reason why the GDI acceleration functions are critical is because pcie is as slow as treacle. The GDI functions keep everything in gpu memory.Of course this is less important on Vista+ with compositing. But that adds 1-2 frames of lag to the entire desktop. And causes all kinds of other rendering glitches that break applications. And even with compositing enabled, there is still quite a bit of GPU -> CPU -> GPU because GDI is a core part of the windowing system, and this has not changed even in modern windows.
Absolutely fucking nothing of substance would happen.You can't expect a bunch of autists here to develop newer drivers, shit like HDR support and implement any improvements that were actually done to dwm that people easily ignore.
>>108936139Devuan Xfce runs great on my 2008 StinkPad.
>>108933788i would store it in my leaks directory and never read it like everything else in there
I'm glad I never read leaked XP source code. Means I can still work on improving Wine.
>>108940756you just produced an absolute slop without any technical details, contrary to my statement where i described what that meme does. it saves memory and decelerates.there is no such thing as "GDI driver", GDI is bunch of functions tied together in a stateful way to draw stuff. DWM or direct write 2D doesnt have those primitives (needs a drawing library) and usually comes with GPU meme. not mentioning the bloat:> DirectX 11: Generates a significantly higher volume of cache files, resulting in a much larger disk footprint (often ranging from hundreds of megabytes to multiple gigabytes). DirectX 11 features a far more complex rendering pipeline, introducing Hull, Domain, and Compute shaders alongside traditional Vertex and Pixel shaders. The permutations of these modern shaders create vast amounts of state data that must be cached.> DirectX 9: Generates minimal to no persistent disk cache files by default. Its pipeline is rigid, consisting only of simple Vertex and Pixel shaders. The compilation overhead for DX9 shaders is light enough that systems historically compiled them on the fly in system memory or relied on basic, application-specific caching.
>>108933788Nothing would happen just like how nothing happened when the xp code was leaked.>>108935228I'm in the openxp discord, all anyone does is rice the themes. Really sad as someone who used xp to the very end in 2020.
>>108941957>as someone who used xp to the very end in 2020.What made you stop using xp? What would be needed for you to come back?
>>108933788i think peak windows was Windows 10, it actually added huge amount of FPS to games, i recall same reduction of FPS going to Windows 11.Linuxes Proton keeps getting better, and games run better than Windows 11, of course they wont run better than on Windows 10 unless someone can prove it meaningfully.Mid summer I am going to be switching to Kubuntu, already testing it in my laptop's VM
>>108940318dont forget nobody would know how to build it I dont think microsoft even knows how to build it anymore because of how big of a mess their build systems are
>>108933788I had to install a GPT version of windows 7 on my semi bricked Asus motherboard that was freezing in the bios menus and could only read UEFI because the only software that can flash that shitty motherboard without entering the bios only works on windows 7. No, it doesn't work on 8 or 10. What a miserable experience that was... Fuck Asus and fuck that shitty old OS and fuck me for using this old piece of shit motherboard I guess.
>>108933796FP not wrong. The secondary thing holding win7 back going foward would be driver support for all the hardware made after win7 sunset. Unless AI suddenly becomes elite at RE and making drivers or you find a stash of 10,000 deep linux autists willing to write drivers for all that hardware you're going to be SOL.
>>108933788Nothing. Maintaining an OS secure requires a team of competent qualified people working on it over time, which requires money
>>108942147>take something away>give some of it back later>look it's better now!
>>108933788It took 4chan months to find the build file in the leaked xp source. Windows 7 code is completely safe even if it leaks here.
>>108943631>site has become so dead that you can leak the pure, unfiltered secrets of the world and you're lucky if you even get a single "fake & gay" reply
