Why is Windows 7 largely considered peak Windows?
>>109538378last windows before MicroSoft got turned into MasalaShits
>>109538378Never cared all that much about the transparency shit but other than that, most of the UI was fairly straightforward and tried to service the needs of the user. Drivers were mostly stable by then too, which was always one of Windows weakest points. Then Microsoft discovered the value of advertising and telemetry, which they started rolling out slowly in newer versions of Windows until it became little different than having a walmart manager following you around everywhere you go.>>109538462MBAbros had their turn at making everything shit. Turning Microsoft into Jeet Central started under the watch of uber-MBAbro Steve Ballmer but it took time for that cancer to fully take hold. Now even the MBAbros have mostly lost power as Microsoft becomes, as you wrote, MasalaShits, with Indians hiring Indians no matter what.
It's not, except among zoomies.
>>109538378>Why is Windows 7 largely considered peak Windows?No, it's far more complicated. there is no peak.each version comes with a set of good and bad ideas and a lot of it is personal preference as well and context of the time.And the problem is that when it's decided that these are bad it's hard to just remove it.
There are people in college who never used Windows 7, they grew up with iOS, Chromebooks, Windows 10/11 and Android. time to stop being a millennial boomer.
>>109538378Being a windows 7 chad is just like being unstoppable.>Firefox ESRStill supported>Windows Security EssentialsStill updated. >SteamStill works.>Zero daysNonexistent.
>>109539199>No Nvidia 40 series or 50 series support>Only supports 192GB ram so can't run large local models>Agentic botnets scanning for vulnerabilties>Firefox ESR dosen't support three years of CSS and Javascript improvements forcing devs to use polyfils that used to be reserved for Internet Explorer.>Linux users outnumber Windows 7 users by 10-1 now.Being a Windows 7 user is getting harder every day.
>>109539252Classic 7
>>109539252None of that matters.
>>109538378First one without 10000000 viruses?
>>109538378It's the last and most refined version where the desktop experience was actually the top priority.8/8.1 treated you as second class behind mobileshit. 10/11 prioritize exploiting you rather than serving you.
>>109538378Because it doesn’t have GDID?
>>109539252Latest actual hardware for Windows XP and Windows 7Windows XPLatest Intel CPU>4th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop Processor (2013)Latest AMD CPU>AMD FX-9590 (2013)Latest AMD GPU>Radeon HD 7000 (2011) and R9 200 (2013) seriesLatest NVIDIA GPU>NVIDIA GeForce 900 series (2014–2015)>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti - 6 GB / GDDR5 / 384 bitWindows 7Latest Intel CPU>7th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop ProcessorLatest AMD CPU>AMD Ryzen 5000 Series (Vermeer/Zen 3) processors, ranging from the 6-core 5500 to the 16-core 5950X>5800X3D and 5950X supportLatest AMD GPU>AMD Radeon RX 5000 series, launched in July 2019Latest NVIDIA GPU>NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 Series (Ampere) GPUs, released in 2020>Starting January 16th 2023, Microsoft is no longer accepting driver submissions for WHQL certification on Windows 7>The latest Windows 7 drivers are not WHQL-certified, thus Windows cannot verify the digital signature>Nvidia drivers as just one of many drivers that produce the code 52 error since microsoft decided to revoke the older certificates.RAM>Home Premium: 16 GB of RAM>Ultimate: 192 GB of RAM>To get the latest updates for your Windows 7 installation, you can use the Simplix Pack>Simply drag and drop existing Windows 7 ISO onto downloaded UpdatePack7R2 installer (~800MB), then it will generate a patched ISOhttps://blog.simplix.info/updatepack7r2/>Firefox ESR 115 in order to use Firefoxhttps://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/115.33.0/releasenotes/>Signed NVIDIA driver for Windows 7 — 8.1>Use this if you get code 52 errorhttps://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/228705/https://github.com/dartraiden/NVIDIA-WIn7-Win8-Signed-Driver/releases
>>109539252>>Only supports 192GB ram so can't run large local modelsyou know that windows server 2008 exists, right?
>>109538378It isn't. It's what you grew up using if you're 18-25 and I'm pretty sure that's still the prominent demographic here. 2000 is peak Windows for me. First version of NT that was somewhat usable at home. No more VxD BSODs. Night and day stability difference compared to 98SE and the beginning of the end for 9x and DOS.
>>109540047>Windows 7>Latest Intel CPU>7th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop ProcessorNo, the last officially supported Intel CPU for Windows 7 (and 8) is the 6th Gen.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-7-supported-intel-processors>Latest AMD GPU>AMD Radeon RX 5000 series, launched in July 2019No, AMD has a driver for the RX 6000 series for Windows 7.https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-22-6-1-WIN7.html
