Explain to a Zoomer why so many of you consider this the perfect OS (or at the very least, Microsoft's best)
>>109383862This is the second time today that I posted on the wrong board. Was meant for /g/, but since we're already here then just answer with "Gayming" perspective in mind, to keep it in-topic.
It was the last Windows OS designed for computers rather than tablets and other retard hardware.
I don't. It doesn't have as many bsods.It uses more resources. Currently mine crashes about once every 10 minutes.It's a shit OS, Vista was probably better. XP is better. But even XP killed DOS so XP is shit.MS should have kept building with 95 or 98. They most likely changed everything like they do once in a while because they don't know how to deal with what was done. They lose people. And reinvent the wheel to be some new fucked up faggot thing. Now with fucking jeets.
>>109383862win 11 ltsc is perfect
I just miss the aeroglass aesthetic.
>>109383864This, plus the system settings and features were far easier to access, also didn't have the same level of bloat/spyware as anything after it.
it just werks
Windows 7 black edition can have up to 256 gigabytes of RAM
There is literally nothing wrong with Windows 11
Because they hired a jeet that discontinued it and replaced it with 10 and 11
Windows XP onwards is known to zoomers.Also Windows was never good.
Nothing. It's just typical retardation. People will pretend they didn't, but they cried about going from XP to Vista, from Vista to 7 and from 7 to 8. It's equally funny to see people "boycotting" Win 11 by refusing to abandon 10 when 11 is just the same as win 10 and people hated on 10 as well.
>>109383862Because it has the perfect number.
>>109383875https://youtu.be/XAqkTbw15Kw?si=vsLKzQFk-3_y_nkn
>>109383862It's super stable, performant, very OFFLINE computer operating system, with a high level of compatibility throughout generations.It does not try to appeal to the mobileslop device audiences like W8 and up, failing at both desktop and portable modes.It does not try to be an online SERVICE like W10-11.It does not require online registration,does not force updates for you (remember when you could choose update policy ZERO - "NEVER check or download updates"?),does NOT push adds into the UI.What comes to UI, from Wee8 onwards, Windows essentially runs TWO (2) different file browsers / operating systems on top: the Explorer, and the Metro-style sloppa. And the more years go by, the more MS hides basic functions and options behind the latter, or COMPLETELY removes settings from the end-user.W7 also does not support / force "Apps" into your computer, and you are NOT stuck with the shitty Windows Store releases by default. The install size and system requirements are also roughly HALF of that of W10, and less than 1/4th of Wee11's, requiring no TPM or other botnet backdoors.You also get free HEVC support, support for just about any 32 and 64-bit program, and a piece of mind knowing that you "own" your PC. The amount of butthurt my legally obtained W7 Ultimate SP1 install DVDs and their still valid activation key cause within the Jeet community is also quite hilarious.Finally: W7 has the best mascot tan.
>>109383877>Finally: W7 has the best mascot tan.I beg to differ
>>109383863You can delete threads.
>>109383862The only OS that was somewhat flawed was Windows Vista.
>>109383877I miss 7 like you wouldn't believe, and I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could. The only UX related thing 10 improved over 7 was changing scrolltarget from Focus to Mouseover.
>>109383878Literal anal-slut whore.W7-tan taught people how to build their PCs from scratch. W10 whore is an abusive yandere, and now used goods hag.
>>109383882fixed pic.
>>109383882>Literal anal-slut whore.That's kind of hot.
>>109383862It was the last Windows OC ever created without involvement of Indian programmers.
>>109383862>No ads>No unwanted "features">stable>Has all the useful features from 98SE-2000-XP>Pure soul Aero design but has classic theme if you're into that (which is backward compatible with 95plus and onward themes)It was literally that simple. Clean, working and good looking OS. MS just had to fuck it up with greed.
Windows 7 had the biggest shill campaign ever.Games ran literally twice as well on xp compared to 7.
>>109383862Made for PCs and the customer was the owner of the PCAs opposed to now where it's made for phones and the customers are the fat faggots buying your data
>>109383862It just werks
>>109383862If you looked up something in the searchbar it actually looked in your harddrive, not fucking Bing...
Shitposting from my 7
>>109383866Good morning sar
>>109383862>>109383867>>109383881>>109383886Might as well take this opportunity to shill Classic 7. It's based on 10 LTSC so it has support until the 2030's, and looks and feels nearly identical to Windows 7.Or you can just use KDE on Linux with a Windows 7 theme.
>>109383893>it look duh same so its the same!!!kill yourself
>>109383877it had one significant flaw, you couldn't have vsync without enabling gayass Aero
>>109383864>Windows OS designed for computers rather than tabletsAnd windows failed at the tablet market.
>>109383895>I want my framerate halved when it falls under full.
>>109383893Current years lack of an easy way to start over if you fuck up, ie: a recovery disc, has left me too much of a scared techlet to fuck around like that. Moreso because I buy prebuilt and is probably the only anon that actually pays for a key to pro/enterprise versions (which are always oem because fuck me) so I can turn off shit like forced updates without running random exe's that promise me they're only for debloating.
>>109383862wouldn't you have grown up with win7 if you were a zoomer?
>>109383896They just gave up on it. What's the alternative? android? Pfft. Should be windows phones. Would be cool to play old games and everything just werks.Also google is making android require using the store to install stuff.
>>109383899Zoomers grew up with iPhones
>>109383862I had a Windows 7 until two years ago. It died. I upgraded it to WIndows 10 in 2020 but then switched it back.Then I had to use my stupid Laptop with Windows 10 on it (originally windows 11 was on it but I "downgraded" it).This year I bought a new pc and installed Linux on it and made it look like I'm using Windows XP including the iconic hill background.I had two other laptops with Windows 10 on them before the Windows 11 one but they both got broken.
Because it is. You can even use it as a daily driver in old as fuck toasters you don't want to get rid off yet.
>>109383862I'm also a zoomerKING who grew up with win 7I don't think 7 was that good it's just that 8, 8.1(i think it was called?), 10 and 11(in particular) were so bad people are nostalgic for win 7 which was a decent productOlder people around me who used Vista hated it, and while I have nostalgia for XP because they were the first OS I used a lot of old people dislike it because it was buggy and insecure
>>109383900They changed the UI for the tablet market. They failed at the tablet market. Instead of changing back the UI to make it more suited for a normal PC they kept the stupid changes.
>>109383900>Also google is making android require using the store to install stuff.Doubt that'll happen in the eu, since it most likely falls under the sideloader thing Aplel got bitchslapped for.
>>109383906We need something like a linux but for phones and tablets. I consider google to be the most evil company after microsoft.
>>109383907There are at least 3 distros like that, but you basically have to hack your phone (losing any warranty and support) to even try them out.
>>109383862>Colorful UI>Aero Glass>Comfy desktop themes with their own distinctive sound library>Fixes a number of issues with VistaThose come to mind.
>>109383900Phones have become good for emulating games. For some reason the emulators are still kept at the playstore.
>>109383899I'd say some people would've still have 98 on their school computers (assuming their schools had computers/a computer lab) some ways into the XP era.When all you're teaching elementary students is typing form, e-mail, basic web safety, etc. then it was more than enough.
I wouldn't use perfect for any OS but Windows 7 with the classic shell felt like the right balance of usability with a lightweight interface. It felt snappy, responsive, looked clean and simple and straightforward. While plenty of GNU/Linux distros and DEs mimic the visual aesthetic, they lack the polish that a leading corporation is capable of. Sadly MS has squandered that, it's just not where their focus is anymore.
I call it windows syndrome. Each version of windows is worst than the last and by the end of that versions lifetime its had enough fixes by the community and microscope that the product is usable just for the cycle to start all over.
>>109383862My computer was mine and the operating system operated the computer properly.
>>109383911I'm a zoomer (or millenial/zillenial) born in 1996. I remember some school computers still having 98 on them. There were computers with Windows Xp, Windows 7 and in one room there were computers with Linux and Windows 7 on a virtual machine there. I loved Windows Xp and 7 and I miss Xp more.
it just worked
>>109383911I was born in 2000; even my earliest memories with the computer lab in elementary school had Windows XP. Yet bizarrely whenever I hear Windows 2000's startup sound I feel nostalgic despite never using it. (or ME)
>>109383904DOS and later 3.11 were the first things I used. I sure as shit don't have nostalgia for either. I don't recall much about xp besides the visuals, but 7 was actually designed with EUX in mind, unlike 10.When I downgraded to 10 it took me several fucking minutes to find out how to pin folders to quick access in the file explorer because you can't just pin current location and call it a day. That should NOT happen.>>109383907>most evilI'd say it's either a tie or google being slightly in the lead. MS has too much incompetence these days, which is easily confused for malice, due to all the jeets with fake credentials while google quietly dropped the "don't be evil" tagline long ago.
>>109383862it works and it doesn't have bloat, still boot it on my other disc from time to time because reason and it runs more smooth that win10
>>109383915>>109383917Thanks for your anecdotes.The turn of the millennium truly was a mish-mashy time.In some ways, of course, it still is.
>>109383862it suckseverything else is just worse
>>109383893>it le looks the sameit doesnt have the same functionality NIGGER
In ten years, this thread will be replaced with >remember how great Windows 11 was?I saw it happen with XP and with Vista and now with 7 & 10. 8 not much but I think that's because so few people used it, MS moved on to Windows 10 pretty fast.Of course this also means that Windows 12 and 13 are going to be... grim.
>>109383916>Windows 11 is a buttplug with razorblades taped to it
>>109383918Win 10 and 11 are basically designed for 70 year olds and 10 year olds foremost that's why it's so hard to access any feature that might fuck up yyour computer or why there's zero customisabilityOf course it alienates people already familiar with computers
>>109383923>I saw it happen with VistaYou didn't. Stop lying.
>>109383926It absolutely has happened with Vista. Not as much as 7, but again, Vista wasn't as widely adopted. XP users heard bad things and many stuck with XP until 7 released.
>>109383925They're also intended to be always online and tied to a cloud account. You basically have to hack them just create separate local logins without a MS account.
>>109383862It's not. Windows 7 was shit and worse than XP and 2K. The only reason people ended up using it was because XP 64bits never took off.
>>109383862If you're a zoomer you literally used XP and 7, wtf?
>>109383927>stuckThat's because the MS cycle has always been alternating between Works and Shit. Naturally most people skipped every other iteration. I hope the cycle continues and 12 won't be even worse than 11, but I'm not optimistic.
I've been using Windows since '95, although I can't say much about Windows 95 and 98 because I was just a kid, but from the millennial era onwards I do remember.Win XP/WIn 7>Win8.1>Win vista>Win 10/11>Win 8>Win millennialWindows 8 for millennials was definitely garbage, much worse than Windows 11. Honestly, I think Windows 10 and 11 are the same; maybe 11 is a bit worse, but I've never been a fan of 10 either. Windows Vista isn't as bad as people remember, although I do miss things that XP had, which was much better, and which Windows 7 just has with a facelift. Windows 8.1 didn't seem as bad to me as Windows 8, and I think it's better than 10.
>>109383862it's comfy and it doesn't piss me offi'm still on it, most software has legacy versions archived and i don't play AAA slop so it's not really a problem
>>109383932Windows Vista and Windows 8 flopped so hard that MS had to speed up the release of win7 and 8.1
because it was feature rich and stable without being annoying or in your way or overtly annoying its literally that simple to make a good OS
>>109383862>explain to a zoomerYeeeeees another bait thread by some 35 year old faggot doing his zoomer larp that will get endless replies, YEEEEEES!Zoomers don't know about an OS that was released in 2009 and was considered the gold standard of Windows for years! DON'T QUESTION ME THEY JUST DON'T!
>>109383862Significant improvement over XP and early Vista, with a much smaller level of garbage you had to disable than what came after. Was way more stable than XP, I don't think I saw a BSOD over several years of using it. Aero is the best looking UI Windows has ever had even if 7's version of it was slightly worse than Vista's and Windows has looked like shit on a stick ever since 8.
>>109383934With Windows Vista, although also somewhat unstable, most of the complaints were because people didn't have PCs with more than 256MB of RAM and without a dedicated GPU. I used it on a Dual Core E2140 PC with 2GB of RAM and a GT 8500, so it wasn't such a bad experience, actually.
>>109383874Early Vista's system requirements were too high.Noone cried about Vista to 7Complaining about 7 to 8 is legitimate it was a huge step down.
>>109383934also>Windows 8 That piece of crap failed because it tried to be like Android and could be used on tablets and phones.
>>109383881Nah, there's also alt-tab thumbnails and the ability to press Delete while alt tabbing to close programs. That was an actual improvement. Not worth everything else that came with though.
>>109383862>OS gets in your wayBad.>OS stays out of your wayGood.
>>109383862It was the last OS that was an upgrade from the previous OSes, instead of an outright downgrade on everything besides the spyware.
it isn't. re7ards are either destitute or too retarded for linux7 doesn't even support VRR, it's garbage.
>>109383865>Vista>BetterlmaoYou didn't have to live with the TCP/IP stack crashing every fifteen minutes and interrupting all your connections
>>109383865>crashes about once every 10 minutesThat's clearly a hardware issue you schizophrenic retard. Fucking kill yourself.
>>109383944i mean clearly in the modern day linux is superior but when windows 7 was still supported it was amazing
They are baby ducks who think Microsoft wasn't collecting telemetry back then (they were). Telemetry is a good thing and Microsoft is a 4 trillion dollar company Meanwhile Gnome can't afford a security maintainer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJyt7oku3Tk&t=1sAnd SteamOS is just a Windows emulator instead of compiling Native Linux API games.
>>109383948Gnome has been shit since they abandoned Gnome 2, who gives a shit about them failing?
>>109383938>don't>>109383948>think Microsoft wasn't collecting telemetry back then (they were).The telemetry came with the last windows 7 upgrades. They could be easily reverted.>Telemetry is a good thingWhat kind of retarded shill are you?
>>109383862It's not the best OS or best Windows - Windows 11 is way better than Windows 7 in almost every way imaginable, but the UX specifically is much better on 7. I think to most users, the UX is the most important part of an OS when it comes to perception of how good or bad it is.Like I don't think using 7 is any better than Vista given the same exact hardware, but because Vista was released a while before 7 it provided a really shitty UX due to the toasters of the time being unable to run it smoothly.
>>744137589That was not supposed to be part of the reply.
>>109383862My PC still runs 7.
>>109383953time to upgrade
>>109383953Stop being anti-semitic and buy a newer computer so we can spy you
>>109383954Why? It still plays FFXI, aka the only game I still play.
>>109383865Crashing constantly is not and has never been the norm for a healthy Windows installation. Your hardware is failing and you probably have malware since Windows 7 was the last time users weren't treated like drooling retards l, which maybe in your case they made the right call. Update to a newer version, they're designed for morons like you
>>109383865you are mentally ill
>>109383950They had activation since Windows XP and Microsoft accounts existed in Windows XP (".Net Passports"). Plus you had prompts to to join the Microsoft Consumer Experience Program. The seeds were there ever since Bill Gates wrote his open letter.
>>109383862I only switched from XP to 7 when I could no longer use new programs and it was a downgrade otherwise. I only switched from 7 to 10 when I could no longer use new programs and it was a downgrade otherwise. Im still on 10 until I no longer can use new programs.
>>109383936This thread is full of bots, just like every other thread about zoomers. You can tell because they avoid replying to certain posts.
>>109383956cause you need a newer compute for life
>>109383862It's incredibly stable, perfect at everything it does, the newer versions are worse in every way and most importantly it acts like an operating system and not controlled spyware.
Google doesn't work in Windows 7 anymore in the default Internet Explorer, and Firefox 115 is over 40 versions out of date. The Supermium and R3dfox guys could get bored at any point. Statcounter reveals less than 1% still bother and major websites like Twitch.tv don't work anymore.
i find it funny that the name "microcock" is more appropriate than ever now that everyone working there is indian
Windows 11 25h2 is the fastest version of Windows. Multiple benchmarks already prove it even if you have a toaster it's still better to use 11 LTSC than any old version of Windows.
>>109383962Didn't fix it. Just less often crashes. Disabling override software rendering list would fix it, but scrolling wouldn't be as smooth.
>>109383965>R3dfoxAs long as they don't stop, I'll keep using their shit.>Twitch.tv don't work anymore.Tech illiteracy.
>>109383965Chrome, keep etc works fine in windows 7. Just isn't updated.
>>109383967>even if you have a toaster it's still better to use 11 LTSC than any old version of Windows.The shills are getting dumber and dumber.
>>109383879Doesn't clear up board space and doesnt discourage other xitterniggers (You) from posting other off topic threads
>>109383965>using Internet Explorer>using modern Firefox
>>109383862what the fuck is a zoomer?
>>109383971Windows 7 requires a DX11 or better GPU. Windows 11 LTSC only needs DX10.
>>109383862>Explain to a Zoomernigga you are hitting your 30s stop acting like you are gen alpha babies holy shit
>>109383862Because it was the one that came out after XP, the actual best OS. And before 8, one of the worst OS
>>109383871>t. remphanite
>>109383923I installed 7 back in 2009.Everything just fucking works
>>109383965Firefox still works well on ESR, still updated last month.
>>109383965>he doesn't know about supermium
>>109383980what are you gonna do when they stop supporting windows 7 in 2027?
this thread glows like crazyenshittification is real, even for the "elite"good work guys @CIA @Mossad
>>109383982The issue isn't even support from mozilla itself. It's when will cloudflare stop letting firefox ESR pass through their faggot turnstile. That shit is practically used by 99% of modern websites, and basically you're just one corpo decision away from being phased out of the internet.
I'm on a paid 10pro oem key, local account and autoupdate turned off via policy. Should I bother doing the ltsc thing, which I know nothing about?
>>109383985just switch to cachyOS, sounds like up your alley, tranny. do you do any multi on that outdated crap?
>>109383984have you guys tried Librewolf?
It has no bloat, easy to use, isn't filled with spyware, games just work on it and it's fine. Especially easy to use.>"hurr durr Linooks is better, just learn Mint"If I have to use a console command to do what I can do with a click of a button on Win 7, then it's not a good OS. Seriously, why the fuck can't you just make Linux work just like Win 7? Why do I need to download packets for my installer? Why can't I just open a setup.exe and install the program? WHY DO I NEED TO TYPE OUT A COMMAND EVERY TIME!?!?!? FUCK OFF!!!
>>109383974
>>109383987I'm actually happy with r3dfox, but I'll try it out if it stops working.
>>109383862Didn't you guys grow up with Windows 7?Did you not notice the degradation in how pleasant in experience it was to transition to subsequent versions?'Same thing happened with us boomers going from XP to Vista (though I personally skipped it).
>>109383990librewolf just werks.
Turning off hardware acceleration in system in chrome stopped crashes and scrolling is still smooth.
>>109383982The internet is full of turbo autists, they will find a way to keep us going.If Windows 11 was actually good, we would want to move. Since it's shit, we fight on.
>>109383991>thinks they are boomer for being on XP.first "OS" that I used "consciously" as a kid was windows ME before that was too outdated and we had to switch to XP (XP is peak Microslop.)
>>109383877>The amount of butthurt my legally obtained W7 Ultimate SP1 install DVDs and their still valid activation key cause within the Jeet community is also quite hilarious.Wait what do you mean, can you elaborate on this?
>>1093839917 doesn't have much malware that i've noticed. But there is nothing to stop it. At least on xp you could stop it. I've had more severe issues with 7 than i've had on xp.Every version of windows has been better going backwards, even to 3.1PC used to have a lot of soul. Now they exist to suck that soul.
>>109383995Yes, most of us boomers started on ME, but but the topic isn't about "first".
>>109383871*except that it doesnt pozz my neghole for me
>>109383980The only thing I've seen that doesn't work well with Firefox ESR is google Gemini and certain features on the grok website like chat history loading.
i followed the chain of 7 -> 8 -> 10 -> 11 i am no tech expert so purely from a consumer pov i legitimately do not see any upgrade from 7 and onwards. the smallest noticeable differences are some QoL changes that arent significant anyways. at work they still have some old pcs that use win 7 and messing around on it after not using 7 since over 10 years it made me surprised how well it held up
>>109383881there are kernel extensions that let you run current chrome and steam vscode etc. i have not left win 7
>>109383875>spam nigger nigger nigger on 4chin all day>"DID I MAKE YOU PROUD, SKY DADDY????"
>>109384003just because your rabbi molested you doesn't mean everyone else had the same experience religiously, grow up pedokike.
>>109384003>>spam nigger nigger nigger on 4chin all day>>"DID I MAKE YOU PROUD, SKY DADDY????"Yes. Keep up the good work.
>>109384004>proving my point
>>109384006keep coping with your transition oh you already did that? you don't pass? cope with rope.
>>109384027post skin color
Since this thread is full of OSfags, can someone explain to me why W11's multi-monitor support is SO MUCH FUCKING WORSE than W10's? I swear I have to do a different series of switching from Single/Duplicate/Extend/MainMonitor on the software end, and plugging/uplugging monitor cables, on/offing monitors, every single time to get what I want. For reference, I have 3 monitors which I cycle through these settings:Single Monitor 1Extend Monitor 1 and 2Single Monitor 3This worked fine one W10 but it's a mess on W11.
>>109383862It's not all that great, and arguably not even M$'s best... It's just that Vista was very shitty at launch and everything after has been much worse.
I've heard that there is an opensource windows 7 installer out there.
>>109383899Grew up with xp then 7.
>>109383911It's fucked that these programs were cut because they assume kids are good with them now. We only had 1.5 generations of basic computer literacy.
>>109383871>access to program files denied
Not even best windows, that is windows 98
>>109383862>explain to a zoomer why zoomers treat W7 as the second coming of Christ???
>>109384049Winkey-p lets you cycle through monitor settings, alt-tab style.You're probably already using that, but if you don't it might werk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Windows 2000 was peak Windows. Everything went downhill from there
What do you mean "explain to a zoomer"? We zoomers grew up with XP and 7. If you were a zoomer you'd know this
>>109384346Yeah that's what I meant by switching on the software end. But sometimes I'll use that to select the second monitor only, but monitor 1 will just flash once and stay active, even though monitor 2 is highlighted as selected and active on the Win Key P popup. Did not have this issue on Win10.
>>109384006You had no real point, you just had a genuine capslock spergout over an internet post that upset you
>>109383862Vista was equally good. Windows 2000 was a different animal, much lighter and more spartan. What they have in common is working quietly and staying out of your way, not trying to upsell you on shit, not snitching with tons of telemetry. An operating system in exchange for a license fee rather than a foot in the door to try and grabble a new revenue stream.
>>109384938And for the people who say "Vista was shit": no, your computer was shit. Vista on contemporary hardware with native drivers was bulletproof. Running it on a flaky PII with a 4MB CL-GD5446 and 128MB of RAM is why you had problems.
>>109383862Its not, its garbage. Windows 2000 is peak windows. And its been down hill since then. At best Windows 7 is the last version of windows that is barely tolerable.
>>109384958There is no computer in existence that would make windows vista work as well as 2k/xp. Even a computer with 1 trillion gigahertz cpu would still be more laggy than a regular computer running XP, because the lag on vista was structural.
>>109383929XP 64bit was only available on Itanium, so of course nobody used it.
>>109383988>WHY DO I NEED TO TYPE OUT A COMMAND EVERY TIME!?!?!?You don't. Software manager has all the packages a normie like yourself needs, and doesn't involve using command line. Especially on Mint and Ubuntu, almost everything can be done via GUI... it's just not always the best option.
>>109383862I'll give you one pragmatic answer: it was the last OS before subscription faggotry was normalized across the software/engineering industries. If you know what you're are doing you can abuse the clock to continue using the last version of everything that isn't paywalled, and without the use of warez/cracks, and minimal risk for viruses, with the caveat that you have to keep it offline.>Tell me how to do itFigure it out.
>>109383862As a zillenial who used XP, Vista, 7 and currently holding onto an old 10 machine: a lot of people hated Vista, but it had a lot of improvements over XP, stability and security wise, the problem was it was heavy for the time.Windows 7 is a repackaged Vista, but the computers it ran on were actually made with 64 bit in mind and were more powerful. It was also the last time were the computer felt 'yours' rather than wrestling with Microsoft for your own desktop, at least from a standard user perspective. If you had used Windows before, everything was familiar. Same start menu idea and your task bar worked the same as Microsoft didn't push the metro interface just to 'fix' it on 10.A lot of issues with 11 are the same I had (and still have) with going from 7 to 10, just even worse. And I'm sure a lot of people had coming from 95/98/ME to XP. Such is the nature of Microsoft.
>>109384039here it is saar, indians are aryans saar
In many ways windows 10 is better than 7, but the total lack of respect for user control over updates and forcing shit like onedrive/cortana/copilot make it shit11 has a few nice features like explorer tabs, but it takes the shitty shit and turns it to...11
>>109383924>A buttplug with razor blades glued to it with surveillance cameras attached
>>109383988>work just like Win 7I'm actually glad it doesn't.Package management, or what you can call program installation management, is superior on gnu/linux. Imagine if you can go to the control panel and download all your programs from the installation list. You don't even have to double-click .exe and tardwrangle the install, it is automatically installed for you after you simply type in the name, hit enter, and press y. No need to choose a folder or location, no need to tick off complementary bundled services like installing google search. No need to keep pressing next, next, next. And these programs are all free. Of course, if you didn't want to, you can actually manually install them via your distro's websites. But you're too retarded to find said websites.If you're too brainlet for that, stick with your abomination of windows and its copycat of the android and apple store.
>>109385468>I'll give you one pragmatic answer: it was the last OS before subscription faggotry was normalized across the software/engineering industries.Also the last microsoft operating system that didn't cater or pander to mobile.
>>109385048>XP 64bit was only available on Itaniumretard
>>109385809The lack of a monetized, business oriented ecosystem is what appeals to me. From the ground up gnu/linux wasn't made to cater to businessmen, it's a paradise for tech geeks who couldn't stand closed-source software. You also can't expect a bunch of nerds to have a front-end mindset like fancy GUI when they're used to working server rooms and such. For the recent converts who are rabidly promoting gnu/linux though they're only making it worse by trying to force everyone off microsoft.I may be a contrarian when I type this, but I think Microsoft or closed systems are necessary if only to keep the normalfags out, just as gnu/linux is necessary to keep the autists in place. You only need to look at the mass adoption of smartphones to see how dumbed down intellectually the tech sector has become compared to say when it was limited to desktop and office computers and a floating online population of 100m across europe and america. The chinese had the right idea of having a firewall to keep their insane netizens in.
>>109385908>it's a paradise for tech geeks who couldn't stand closed-source softwareYou don't know what the fuck you're talkinga bout. Modern lunix is full of binary drivers and firmware blobs. Not to mention Steamietards who gobble down Valve's ballsModern Lunix is a couple of buyouts away from becoming Android
>>109384495True. I liked 98SE also, but 2K was the MS's magnum opus. XP could be decent with SP3 if you used nlite to create a slim image.>>109385012Yeah, of the modern bunch (Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11), 7 is leagues ahead.>>109383965These forks and VxKex just prove that 7 is perfectly capable of running any modern software and MS is just forcing its obsolescence (just like it did with previous 32-bit OSs).
>>109386276>These forks and VxKex just prove that 7 is perfectly capable of running any modern software and MS is just forcing its obsolescence (just like it did with previous 32-bit OSs).Can you not be anti-semetic please?
>>1093838622k>7>xp
>>109386242>Modern lunix is full of binary drivers and firmware blobs.And you expect normalfags to know what to do with these? Last I checked gnu/linux is still open source. Also, Valve forking arch to make their own Steam OS is only a branch of the entire tree. You forgot the classic example of Canonical. Be happy HP didn't delve into making their own linux operating system.>buying out linuxIt's been decades. Where's the buyout, mansley?
>>109386276> MS is just forcing its obsolescenceYour mental model is flawed. Each version of windows is not a distinct thing, they are snapshots of a continuous process of development. Windows 7 is a snapshot. Its not being forced into obsolescence, it is obsolete by definition. In regards to saying that windows 7 could easily support these new features, well yes, its called windows 8/10/11 etc, newer snapshots of the development branch.
>>109383862you weren't there, you wouldn't get it
>>109383862It's perfect for people who judge an entire OS on how a start menu looks.
>>109386465>Each version of windows is not a distinct thing, they are snapshots of a continuous process of decay.Fixed.Don't stick with Micro$oft for the same reason you don't use Garuda OS a meme linux distro: pajeets are there. Hindu pagans deserve fire and brimstone.
>>109386367>Last I checked gnu/linux is still open sourcegod you're a hopeless moron. a good chunk of drivers depends of blackbox firmware that devs can't do anything with>It's been decades. Where's the buyoutthe linux foundation is financed by fuckhueg megacorporations. they are the ones steering development
>>109383862Honestly it wasn't that good it just let you actually modify the system like an actual adult should be able to
>>109386465What a ridiculous "mental model". Why do you need a new full blown "snapshot" (7->10) just to run a new version of Chrome that didn't add any significant change? If you the source to a program and compile it with a 7-compatible Windows SDK, it will run on 7. Use that exact same source, but compile it using a non 7-compatible Windows SDK, it won't run on 7. Are you saying that is not forced obsolescence? The program didn't require anything extra from the new SDK but still could not run.
>>109386754If you get*
>>109383988sudo nala purge anon
>>109383985LTSC is a lot better but if your system works and is doing what you need not much point. Maybe when you finally move I'd advise it, it's out of the box more bloated by a lot so that alone will save you time
>>109386754You are mixing up different things, OS version and SDK/software versions.But lets address the SDK side of things. Each version of windows adds new features. Some are killer features. The windows api has numerous warts, sometimes a new api solves one of these warts. Software can then be simplified as it no longer has to work around these warts. Sometimes software will leave a fallback code path for older windows versions. And Microsoft SDKs have been doing this for years. But usually it gets to a point where supporting an older version results in an architectural cost for the software. So eventually they cut off older versions. As a programmer I don't fault people for doing this, some of the older windows apis are real awkward and make certain things basically impossible without hacks.
>>109386826less bloated*
>>109383965>The Supermium and R3dfox guys could get bored at any point.Bored of what? Sending porn to children on the 'cord? That's what r3dfox tranny dev did.>>109383969>As long as they don't stop, I'll keep using their shit.I hope you don't use it to call linux users trannies, even if 7fags do this all the time... Glass houses and stones, you know?
>>109383865So many retarded and tech illiterate takes in a single post
>>109383874>from Vista to 7Nobody cried about going from Vista to 7. 7 was universally hailed as a huge improvement from previous Windows versions (in reality it was just a Vista SP2 with a nicer interface).
>>109386923vista quadrupled XP's system requirements and was unstable dogshit. by the time 7 rolled around everyone had (forcefully) upgraded to newer x86_64 cpus, so the backlash died down
>>109386835I'm not mixing anything. Support (or lack of support) for certain OSs boils down to the Windows SDK. Projects want to use the latest SDK for countless reasons, and that forces them to drop support for older OSs. It's as simple as that.A simple "Hello world" compiled with the latest Windows SDK or MSYS2 (which uses a 10+ version of the SDK) won't run on Windows 7 (and probably 8). Programmers will need to bend over backwards to support an OS that is unsupported by the SDK. It's not an issue that the actual program requires a new feature that's only available on the new OS.
>>109387564>Windows SDKSo what you're saying is Microsoft is pulling an Android to force people to upgrade
>>109383862Brother if you're really a zoomer you should have experienced it at least once in your life.But the answer is it was the last true Windows. After 7 there was a restructuring in Microsoft and Windows has had an identity crisis ever since.The UI was functional and consistent, you could actually choose between a classic or modern look, there was no vibecode or webslop, no forced "Microsoft accounts", no bloat or ads like candy crush being installed by default. It just worked. The perfect balance between functionality and aesthetic.I wouldn't even say it was all perfect. But compared to everything since it's an absolute gem.>>109383996nta but ever notice how jeets are reinventing crappier versions of things that already exist. Even in Microsoft Copilot is just a worse version of Cortana, which dates back to the Xbox One in 2012. Most jeets didn't have access to tech until recently, and if they did it was a cheap Android or e-waste laptop. Part of why jeets are so bad in the tech industry is because they're constantly seething that they can't reach the same heights as their predecessors in America, Europe and Japan.
>>109387614I think Microsoft has been doing this for longer than Google. It happened with 9x (although this one also had the issue of moving to the NT structure), it happened with 2K/XP, it happened with 7/8 and it happened with earlier versions of 10 (even in 22H2 there are already has some programs that will refuse to run).
>>109387110was more stable than 11 as half the problem was halfbaked/nonexistant drivers for the new drivel model
>>109383871kys retard
>>109383875kys crossnigger
>thread gets moved to a slower boardmods are gods for once.
>>109387976Microsoft's support for older operating systems has not been that bad. Often older operating systems are dropped for a good reason. For example. When they dropped sdk support for XP, it was because thread local storage is fundamentally incompatible between NT5 and NT6.
nobody considere anything windows the "perfect os", 7 in particular is zoomer shitwindows has always been hot garbage going back to the very first version
>all those posts about "huh actually people praised Vista when 7 came out"Vista suffered from a major case of "Software requires hardware that didn't exist yet", but it's constantly being hammered as the users' fault rather than Microsoft.
>>109389049Kike
>>109391587the hardware existed just fine, its just that nobody had any reason to upgrade until thenmicrosoft themselves advertised incredibly generous minimum specifications, leaving users feeling misled when it ultimately ran like crap on their 90s budget machinesmind you this was 2007 and everyone HAD to have a computer, even if it was the contemporary equivalent of a zx 80
>>109391675>previous operating system ran on 64mb of ram>new one took up 512 on its own, required 2gb to let you to anything. also turned on flashy laggy garbage like transparency and stupid widgets nobody cares aboutno, it was bloated as fuck
>>109391712xp massively overstayed its welcome, being absolutely archaic by 2007 when vista releasedit was the sole reason those budget shitters were able to be sold after the millennium at all i do not consider being the largest contributor to an entire decade of underpowered machines as any sort of positive legacy
>>109383862it's a psyops and the retards that fell for it, the goal is to have a wide open door to your system to skiddies and bots since ur OS will have a long and known list of vulnerabilitiestl;dr easy access to your shit
>>109383881I was still using windows 7 in 2021 thought
>>109383902>I had a Windows 7 until two years ago. It died.zoomerspeak
>>109391771>OS not being bloated is the cause of underpowered machinesYou're a goddamn moron. An OS should be as lightweight as possible. As the adage goes: Unavailable RAM is wasted RAM
>>109392192greed was the ultimate causeoems found out they could crap out $500 shitboxes and microsoft facilitated the practice just so they could put windows in more homesin the end everyone lost
I am still using win7 with vxkexobviously i can't play all the newest games but who would want to play AAA slop anyways
>>109383862its the OS that got released before first black president and before first pajeet CEO
>>109392999checked
>>109383864This.And the average Joe had reasonable control over what does.
>>109383912High-class opinion here.
Have 3 comps running and a laptop. Win98 for playing the old Tomb raider games, everything works nice. One is xp pro, still my favorite. One win7 ultimate, most used. Laptop also runs win7. All work well. Kids and wife use win10 and 11. I absolutely hate their comps, crashes nonstop and you can't do anything with them . Mine never freeze or crash and you can adjust and configure them. You have control over your computer. Theirs doesn't allow anything, so when they crash i tell them to take them to the shop,i don't want to deal with those anymore.
>>109383862It was stable and did its job (running your software & hardware) well without getting in your way. At the time, the search function it added to the start menu was also super useful and wasn't yet common. It didn't have any of the hostile anti-features modern Windows has.
>>109383862it just werks the rest is diarheajeet slopcode
>Explain to a Zoomer why so many of you consider this the perfect OSI'm technically one (2002) and really enjoyed 7's classic mode for recourse conservation. It put a lot more control into the hands of the user and allows for them to royally mess a system up if they want. No matter how far the user went, there was always a way to get what they needed back. I always refer to hail Mary tech workarounds at "Windows 7 Level Shenanigans.">>109383865Check you power supply. Often times if your getting full black screens rather than a BSOD with a direct error code it's power or heat related. Batteries and PSU's get cooked on older models because their almost constantly in use so it's always the first thing I check.>>109383877>It's super stable, performant, very OFFLINE computer operating systemHonestly, I see a ton of W7PRO systems in the wild. A lot of the lifetime licenses for business grade embedded systems are kept offline by businesses and individuals who want to avoid paying the downright criminal "rental fee's" of modern software. >>109383904I joke with clients that nearly every other OS from Windows is hated.98? Loved. Windows ME? Hated. XP? Loved. Vista? Hated.7? Loved.8? Hated.10? Loved.11 ...>>109384049>Why is W10 better than 11?Honestly? I think the windows crew gets high on their own ego's and just continues to downward spiral with feature creep.
>>109394068>Why is W10 better than 11?its not, windows users are just dead afraid of progress and clamp to whatever theyre using until the very last moment when microsoft forces them to switchand even then when their computer is becoming a security risk its still difficult to convince them to upgrade10 was just as much as a disaster at launch, by now it has over a decade worth of patches and fixes ironing out any of the early problemsi remember in the beginning that 10 was so god awful i had to switch back to the previous versionwindows is dog eggs, it always has beenno matter the version, no matter the time periodi am more than glad that i switched to apple computer os
>>109394068I think the alternating love/hate trend with windows versions stopped with 10. Windows 10 was not "loved"; people had to be dragged by their ears away from 7 for years with repeated free upgrade campaigns to make it the majority adopted Windows OS. It did become a solid stable OS eventually, but nobody was excited to change off of 7 to it. I bet most consumers just got squeezed off of 7 from lack of software support.
>>109387110Correct. 7 was essentially just updated, now stable Vista, less annoying UAC, and nicer UI. But the main difference was hardware had caught up.
Elder Millennial here.Windows 7 had the best of everything, all the shit we liked about Vista, XP, and 98 but it didn't crash and actually worked. Oh you can't find the driver? No big deal, 7 will find it for you (originally introduced in XP) it looked good like Vista but didn't crash and needlessly hog a bunch of resources. It had the program compatibility of 98 almost everything written for 7 at the time had a 98 driver and vice versa, people wrote Windows 7 drivers for the 3dfx Voodoo cards. It didn't nag at you for updates. It didn't spy on you. It was stable and lightweight, you could run it on a mobile Coppermine Pentium 3 with a little extra memory. Those tiny Netbooks, all could run 7 Starter and they weren't slow like all the other Netbook OS's.It wasn't bloated, and if it had bloat you could easily remove it. It didn't force updates, it didn't harvest your information. It didn't come pre-installed with malware, if 10 and 11 were released 20 years ago no one would have bought it and it would have been labeled as malware by every single anti-virus software option at the time. You didn't have to do a bunch of crap to it to make it not shitty when you installed it. You didn't need a Microsoft account.Now, granted almost all of these things are available in 10 or 11 IoT LTSC but with a lot more work and a couple scripts. I use both and once debloated and with the telemetry removed they are decent and all the info to do those things to it are readily available with a simple Google search if you're not stupid.7 was just a good plain honest operating system. I have two front-line production machines that I use that still run it with VxKex, pic related Unreal 1999 online on almost period hardware.>muh segurideeIf you're not a fucking mouth-breathing retard you got nothing to worry about. I have a Windows 98SE laptop I connect to the internet to play Quake 2.
it looked niceobjectively it was heavier and a lot more clusterfuckish than windows 10
>>109383862It just worked.
>>109383862after 7 stopped being supported I switched to linux so 8 was my tipping point maybe 11 should be yours
>>109383865You are an unironic niggerfaggot who has never seriously used Windows 9x.
windows was never good. normalniggers say windows 7 was the best because they have ONLY ever used windows, and windows 7 was the least bad. keyword bad.
I can only give you my version of why Windows 7 is so liked. So, I was born in 1990, and I remember when XP came out, I was excited because it had so many new cool features, a new UI. It felt so fresh. It felt so, like, Y2K, because before that, Windows ME was fucking atrocious garbage. So by comparison, it felt like, wow, we're moving ahead into the future. It was great. And then Windows Vista came out. I used that for around three years, and I liked where it was going. It had quite a bit of an improvement over XP, but in reality, it was just XP with a newer kind of glassy look and a whole bunch of bugs. Like, it was the buggiest OS I've ever used besides, like, a Linux OS. So, it was, like, I remember having to use Firefox, and every few seconds it would crash, and you'd have to hit don't send, and then something else would crash, and then you'd have to hit don't send again. And then it was just a constant hitting don't send, using it, then hitting don't send. And then when Windows 7 first came out, I fucking hated it, and I thought it was trash, but then I realized it looked cooler than Vista, and it was basically an improvement in every possible way because it didn't have any of the bugs that Vista was plagued with, and it didn't have any of the botnet garbage, the ads, the, like, telemetry, that when Windows 8 came out, it was awful looking. I was like, oh my god, they did, like, a complete 180 of the direction they should have been going. And then 10 just, like, doubled down on it, and it just made it even worse. And then 11 was basically just the most enchitification style garbage that there could have ever been. So, it was more of, yeah, it just worked than it was anything that was like, wow, it was exceptional. Because the products today are so garbage, it's kind of the last OS from Microsoft that wasn't absolute trash.
>>109383877Nanami-tan my beloved <333
>>109395899Why do all gay men such as yourself act like, like, like such obnoxious faggots desperate for cock. A post saying youre a faggot and desperate for attention would have, like, had more dignity. And when I was 15 in 2005 and had windows XP i could give less of a single shit about it feeling like le hegging fruity algo or if vista had more features. Like, try to like, not be such a stupid FUCK
>>109397356Hook, line and sinker
>>109383862windows 7. not going to lie. hi-key not bussin. feeling some type of way. cooked. for real. for real. sus. not giving. ick.
>>109395899not going to lie, i low key fuck with it. fire. FIRE. for real for real. boomers not giving. sus.
>>109397356not gong to lie. your feelings are valid. for real for real. ya fee me?
>>109383912thisIt's also the last version of Windows that came with a usable start menu.
>>109394068Honestly? Zoomers have outsourced so much of their thinking to chatbots that they start to write like them.
>>109383862because you grew up with it
>>109399877wrong i grew up with xp and partially 98
It never got in my way unlike Windows 11 and Linux
>>109383866>>109383871>open task manager>wait>kill some task>wait>press esc>wait>spam esc>task manager still open>have to press the red X to close itwhat a piece of shit os.
