no windows 10 is just gone

Guess people don't want an audience that sells them out.

>>724222575
If you don't game on your device win7 is fine. Using it right now on my laptop.

>>724222575
I must not have been the only one who really did not want forced copilot or bitlocker.

>>724222575
That doesn't look right

>>724222873
It makes sense if people are switching to a non-Windows OS. Since it's just Windows devices and it's a percentage rather than raw numbers, a large number of Windows 10 users just not using Windows anymore would make all other OS take up a larger percentage.

I'm not sure why Windows 11 took the dip. Perhaps people switching from Win10 to Linux or Mac at the end of its lifetime encouraged people on Win11 to do the same.

Why would people switch to Windows 7 now? Why didn't they just stay there in the first place?

>>724223853
I'm still on Windows 7. PCs aren't for playing games.

now why would anyone install a 15 year old OS in the first place?

>bugs and critical vulnerabilities out of the wazoo
>important certificates soon to expire if they didn't already
>zero hardware support for anything released in the past 10 years
>developers are not going to support old ass SDK and compilers and make sure the software runs on 10 past generations of hardware

are people still running Core2Duo or fucking what? windows 10 will still receive basic software/hardware support for the next few years and runs as well as Win7

>>724223853
it's more indicative of an influx of chinks/jeets.

>>724225894
Most of these aren't really issues.
>bugs and critical vulnerabilities out of the wazoo
>important certificates soon to expire if they didn't already
You can still get updates: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/105915866/#105918406
>zero hardware support for anything released in the past 10 years
This is the only real issue, although old hardware is still good enough.
>developers are not going to support old ass SDK and compilers and make sure the software runs on 10 past generations of hardware
Use VxKex.

>>724226283
>This is the only real issue, although old hardware is still good enough.
My work PC is still on Win7 with an old i7 and it's so much faster and more responsive than all the other newer PCs in the office with Win10/11 it's insane. I hate having to touch anybody else's PC.

>>724223665
you even spotted that your hypothesis is wrong, but you still believe it.
powerful

>>724222575
Haly based

jeetos 11 might be the worst operating system ever, so i can understand

I'm staying on Windows 10 until most newly released games that interest me require Windows 11 or greater. And I'm skipping Windows 11 altogether anyway. If I ever do upgrade to another Windows OS, it will be Windows 12 or higher. Or, when time comes to move on from Windows 10, I may just abandon Windows completely and go with a linux distro.

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>>724226694
>yfw your os doesn't add delay so that it feels like the pc is "working"
>>724228113
>go with a linux distro.
the penguin will always be there when you're ready.

>>724222575
RETVRN

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I'm amazed how people STILL don't know LTSC exists.

>>724222575
>90+% of the thread accepts this graph as fact
Are you people all in mental institutions? It's hard to believe someone this retarded can survive unassisted.

>>724228387
i'm amazed how people think they're somehow working the system by installing LTSC.
you will still upgrade to windows 11 next year when nvidia and everyone else drops support.

>>724228598
>thinking this graph is not fact

>>724228630
Why would they drop support?

>>724228598
Here's the source: https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-202501-202510

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>>724222575
I went back to Vista SP2

>>724223665
What's up with linux troons like this dude?

the majority of the growth is a bot farm in singapore. but there have been other countries that have had spikes in w7 usage so who knows

>>724228828
because every system that you support is an incurred cost. backporting patches, having platform specific architecture... all this is very expensive.
nvidia and everyone else will want to drop windows 10 support ASAP. btw nvidia already announced it.

>>724228676
You have to be mentally challenged to believe that Windows 7 had a 10x surge over the last three months.
>but this random website says so

>>724225894
>Win10 runs as well as Win7
no it doesn't

>>724225894
>muh (((critical vulnerabilities)))
Retardation. Never once have I been hacked and the last virus I got was like 20 years ago after installing random shit from a russian website, and I refuse all updates.
Security from Microsoft is a complete scare tactic meme. It does literally nothing if you're not a retard.

>>724229156
>It does literally nothing if you're not a retard.
true

Posting from my 7.

my main rig runs linux but i have a laptop with 7 that i use for stuff that absolutely wont run properly on linux

>>724228630
>>724229018
LTSC support stops in 2032, retard.

>>724229623
you're confusing microsoft support with the support of the entire windows ecosystem.
windows isn't just microsoft, it's nvidia, it's valve, it's steam, it's firefox... and those will certainly not support windows 10 until 2032.

>>724225420
Are you legit retarded? PCs are for playing games, only cuckold still use consoles in 2025.

>>724228630
>NOOO!!! I NEED THE NEWEST DRIVERS OR ELSE MY GPU WON'T WORK!!!!!!!

Literally everyone just wants old Windows back but with more speed. Why can't Microsoft just do that? They would have all the OS market

>>724225894
>why would anyone install a 15 year old OS
because they are based

did burgerland dump a bunch of e waste into some negro shithole?
there's no way anyone is bothering installing 7 on new shit

>>724230867
Cause their jeet ceo wants your data and to server you curated apps like a phone. 11 is the early version of that.

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>>724222575
WERE BACK BABY

>>724230867
>They would have all the OS market
they already do though? microsoft's goal isn't to make the best OS, you're already on their system, it's to make the most amount of money possible.

>>724230867
>Literally everyone just wants old Windows back but with more speed.
This is just not true. For the same reason nobody is clamoring after Valve to get rid of all the bloat from Steam. Fact is most people actually like software bloat. That's why everyone keeps doing it.

>>724229710
Only cuckold talk like esl fag

how much of this is chinese PC cafes

>>724222575
So people on windows 10/11 migrated to other OS. The total number of Windows going down makes Windows 7 having more %.

You will use the windows 11 and you'll like it. Now upgrade like a good little faggot.

>>724231367
They would run w11 for newest multiplayerslops.

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Linjeet tranny thread.

>>724231420
If Windows as a whole lost enough users to make Windows 7 exceed 20%, Microsoft would be absolutely finished. It's more likely that the data is just fucked. I don't doubt that a bunch of people switched to Linux, but Windows 7 going from 1% to 20% just from people leaving Windows entirely would imply that Windows has already lost the vast majority of its users. The math doesn't work.

>>724231891
what's worse than a tranny that works with linux? a tranny that works with microsoft and apple where you get all their shit pushed on you

>>724228630
I have never updated my drivers.

>>724232053
>where you get all their shit pushed on you
You have no idea what is going on in the open source community right now, do you?

>>724222575
>rather install a defunct 20 year old unsupported operating system than watch a 20 minute "how to install linux mint" video

Leave them to it.

Indians ruined tech and they're probably going to ruin our service and finances next.

>>724232143
do you not understand what a fork is or why open source means trannies can't be as malicious as on windows?

>>724231891
KDE is pajeet software
GNOME is nigger-worshiper software

Use Hyprland, dummy

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>>724232053
You have to push troonix harder, so that you can achieve the high usage statistics in other shitholes besides india after wasting three more decades for nothing besides alpha tier software that barely works.

>>724231891
>windows has the most tasteful profile pic
Surprising. Shame about their OS.
Also whoever took the screenshot for KDE's header is retarded.

>>724232293
15 more years and gayland will be usable.
>but that's still "young" for a display server
Not an argument and not true by the way.

>>724232229
People who are so bad at reading that they need a 20-minute video version of
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
should just stay on Windows, or better yet, stick to consoles and phones. What the fuck is an illiterate person even doing with a full keyboard?

>>724232281
>in order to use my software or fork it you must be a communist that advocates for trans rights
There. Fork it now.

And this is not hyperbole. There's a huge amount of infighting going on in the open source community right now between lefties who genuinely want passing a moral purity test to be a mandatory part of open source software and the silent majority too afraid to stand against them.

>people think the OS needs constant updates or else it stops working
I don't understand this whole panic in switching to 11 or Linux.
10 support is ending? So what, it still works perfectly fine.

More often than not, MS only breaks or makes things worse with their shitty updates.

>>724228930
based. I miss the look of vista a lot. I actually ran XP that had a vista transformation pack back in 2008.

>>724232672
I'm saying it's easy, you absolute moron.
Holy shit you are functionally illiterate for real.

>>724232775
>burning an iso and installing troonix is super hard
Stop blowing smoke up your own ass, you subhuman /g/eet tranny. Just because you're a retard who nukes his own shit with dd doesn't mean that everyone else is.

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>>724228113
I wish I were half as optimistic as you, thinking that MS magically removes all the (G)A(Y)I and surveillance shit in Win 12.

>>724232654
>And this is not hyperbole.
Then link an actual and literal example of
>in order to use my software or fork it you must be a communist that advocates for trans rights
(inb4 "please understand, saying it wasn't hyperbole was just part of the hyperbole")

>>724232797
See >>724232775

>>724232295
imagine hedging your bets with a corporation which currently has a jeet ceo flooding it with fellow jeets just because you have an attachment to a rapidly depreciating system that was good once

>>724232654
it is hyperbole
you don't actually use linux and are pulling shit out of your ass and hoping no one presses you on it

>>724232963
You're the one who needs to watch some jewtube video because you're mentally challenged. Burning an iso and spamming next or formatting a drive isn't a big deal.

>>724232912
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_Covenant
>The Contributor Covenant is a code of conduct for contributors to free/open source software projects, created by Coraline Ada Ehmke. Its stated purpose is to reduce harassment of minority, LGBT and otherwise underrepresented open source software developers.
>The Contributor Covenant is used in prominent projects including Linux, Ruby on Rails, Swift, Go, and JRuby.
This thing basically required you to be a radical lefty to use Linux for a brief period. There was a bit of an outcry as to how ridiculously political it was which was a little antithetical to what open source is supposed to be so they removed most the over the top stuff but these people have never stopped pushing for the moral purity testing.

>>724233068
You seethe at windows and mac 24/7 as your binaries rot away, and your desktop gets nuked because some neurotic tranny broke an ABI for fun.

>>724233162
That's the opposite of what I wrote. You literally can't read. The education system failed you.

>>724232654
>There. Fork it now.
people complaining are always the nocoders.
linux belongs to the ones willing to put in the work and write code. don't like it? feel free to go back to windows.

>>724233369
>linux belongs to the ones willing to put in the work and write code
It belongs to the ones willing to adhere to the terms of its license. There are actually conditions attached.

>>724222575

Imagine creating an OS designed specifically to market people like unwilling consumers whether they like it or not. What the hell were they even thinking with 11.

>>724233214
What was the point of quoting part of the text if you weren't going to quote the
>in order to use my software or fork it you must be a communist that advocates for trans rights
part?

>>724233214
>retarded trannies did something retarded and lost
meanwhile on windows that happens with no pushback

>>724222575
11 is trash I hate it. it's bricked my network drivers twice now and I've had to fully reinstall the os twice to fix it after spending hours troubleshooting. meanwhile my windows 7 laptop I use everyday has never once had any issues

>>724233335
windows is literally rotting away being replaced by AI vibecode and telemetry lmao
windows 7 was 10 years ago, get over it

>>724223853
>why do people want to switch to the last OS that just works
what a mystery

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>>724233360
>That's the opposite of what I wrote.
>People who are so bad at reading that they need a 20-minute video version of
>direct link
Shut up retard. No one besides you /g/eets needs a guide to burn an iso, so they could install an operating systems that's set up ootb for you. I guess this amount of literal retards talking about troonix is the direct result of pushing open sores in india so much.
>>724233645
Do you do anything besides seething at windows or mac 24/7? Maybe neovaginal dilation?

>>724233780
windows 7 works less than any baby linux distro now and it requires more tinkering too

>>724233780
>i want to go back
you can't, microsoft is a slave to ai and bloat now.

>>724233870
do you do anything besides playing defense for a corporation that has completely backpedaled on everything that made it good?
we all used windows at some point, be it xp, 7 or 10
you're schizoing shit up because you can't accept that shit has changed since you were a kid

>>724233873
it's only gonna get worse, there's also the doom clock of 2038 which will kill it for sure.

>>724233983
Is that a no? Typical linjeet tranny.

>>724234050
the point is that we know what it's like to be you because we all used windows
meanwhile you're lashing out at a complete strawman because you don't actually use linux enough to have a rational opinion on it

>>724233870
>>People who are so bad at reading that they need a 20-minute video version of
Yes, my insulting people who need to watch a video basically is the opposite of your claim that I'm the one who
>needs to watch some jewtube video
so I don't see how that helps your braindead argument.
>needs a guide to burn an iso
I didn't say that either. I just pointed out that a text guide exists for people who can read instead of watching a video that's longer than it would take to read it.
Every single one of your complaints about my posts is actually just you lashing out at a straw man. Take your meds.

new graphics cards dont even work on windows 7. look up WDDM.

>>724233492
It set behavioral standards both in and out of the open source community. Being written by a tranny those standards were basically demands to behave as a far left radical. It commanded maintainers to ensure everyone who contributes anything to their project adheres to those standards and any maintainer who doesn't do that is to have them and their software blacklisted. This was something Linux adopted.

Because there was enough of a pushback the demands mostly got watered down to generic workplace etiquette stuff but originally it was very political.

>>724230651
correct. look up WHQL/WDDM.

I'm honestly tempted to go back to 7. I only play old games anyway and all 11 did was add more annoyances and problems

>>724234156
Stop seething, linjeet.
>>724234158
>read the hecking guide
No one needs a guide to burn an iso and to spam next. You're a fucking retarded jeet, and that's why you need a fucking guide. You have no common sense because you're fucking retarded (brown).

>>724234351
it can be fun as a project to try to get windows 7 in a working condition, but don't do it on your main pc or you're gonna have a bad time: shit breaks, shit doesn't work, and potentially malware.
there's only one real alternative and that's linux.

>>724234396
you will continue to defend microsoft until they cross the threshold even for you
we all know this

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sir this are fake statitstic every one already has done the needful to uppraid windows 11 best version yet of highest reviews copilot AI of the future

>>724234552
You're gonna keep seething at windows and mac until you 41% yourself, you impotent queer.

>>724234618
switching to linux this year made me more joyful actually
hope you get well soon and get over that windows 7 oneitis

>>724234396
I didn't tell you to read the guide.
Even though you tried to hide it by deleting the original reply linked in >>724232775, everyone can see that my first post at >>724232572 was simply a jab at people who need everything in video form, and nothing else. I didn't claim that burning an ISO or installing Linux is "super hard", I certainly didn't imply that I need to watch "some jewtube video", and I didn't tell you to read the "hecking" guide.
Turn off the computer and take your meds.

Going to finally move entirely over to Linux this year lads
Feels good

>>724234396
>No one needs a guide to burn an iso and to spam next.
lol
the overwhelming majority of windows users would need a guide for that while only the dumbest steam deck users would

>>724234798
Yeah wouldn't be seething and projecting 24/7 if you were happy.
>>724234839
>People who are so bad at reading that they need a 20-minute video version of
>direct guide link
You needed a guide because you're retarded, just like your fellow troonix retard shills ITT.
>>724234970
But I thought that windowsfags constantly nuke and pave their operating system? You need to be consistent before you seethe and cope.

>>724225894
>critical vulnerabilities out of the wazoo
Name one.

>>724235059
there's nothing to project, you're objectively enraged and seething, just look at how many comfort buzzwords you need to include in your posts to project strength
windows is on a massive decline and you need to pile up more and more cope to keep defending it
actually, you're not even defending it, you're desperately trying to demonise linux because you know there's nothing worth salvaging in microsoft shitware anymore

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>>724234945
for me it's the CHADchyOS

>>724235238
>more seethe at windows
Is there such a thing as a conscious linjeet?

>>724233870
He's got a point though, there's a new "windows 11 updates broke feature X" headline on tech sites practically EVERY WEEK.

>>724235367
everyone using linux is conscious because they've used windows
you wallow in your sorrow directing your rage at anything and everything because you don't actually know what the alternative is, you repeat linux tranny in your mind like a mantra hoping it keeps the demons of freedom away

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>>724235323
>fell for the cachyos meme
it's the new gentoo.

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>>724234516
>shit breaks, shit doesn't work, and potentially malware.

That's the same for Linux though?

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>>724235458
You're the one seething at windows, mac or bsd 24/7, linjeet. You're a dumb eunuch and you're certainly not self aware. Kill yourself.

>>724235492
it's arch but more vidya centric but not as babyfied and retard proof as steamOS
the best pick for the newbie to power user pipeline really

>>724222575
Baste

>>724235621
linux won't have you jumping through hoops just to open firefox or steam. running a system that's been deprecated for over 10 years is asinine.

it's only because of singapore

>>724235732
>randomised filename with no previous hash and specs hidden
you're not fooling anyone, we both know you reposted this
imagine calling anyone else a seether while every single post of yours needs to have those comfort buzzwords you hold so dear

>>724236930
Cope harder, linjeet.

>>724236981
you ran out of insults? maybe now you can actually tell us about the virtues of staying on 11 without screeching about trannies which are way more pervasive on modern windows?

>>724234516
Well I would only use it for games, wouldn't really be a problem

>>724225894
SAAR PLEASE NO INSTAL OLD OS SAAR

>>724227303
how's it the worst ever

>>724237081
Do you ever stop seething, linjeet?

>>724228253
No matter how shit windows gets, the linux community makes sure entering their ranks is worse than staying with windows. Aye aye, soldier.

>>724237184
if you have old games and old hardware it probably won't be that big a problem. getting steam to work will likely involve some research and sketchy dlls.

>>724237324
you lost
once valve delivers the killshot the mass windows exodus will begin because there's genuinely no value in it anymore, it's all inertia

>>724237586
>muh hecking corpos
>but my hecking based corpo
Just pick a lane, linjeet.

>>724237431
>the linux community
must be the cousin of this 4chan guy i keep hearing about.

>>724237663
do you legitimately have so little nuance in that thick skull of yours that you struggle to differentiate the different actions and attitudes between microsoft and valve?
valve is making all the vile nigger corpos seethe, including you apparently

>>724237882
Fuck off linjeet.

>>724237996
you have nothing to say but you're desperate to have the last word in
for someone that screams about trannies that's pretty damn estrogenated
feel free to do another non reply, i'll take it as a concession and won't prolong your suffering of having to think any further

>>724238159
A simple trannyfetch is enough to send you into a delirious rage. Just continue seething as per usual, linjeet.

>>724222575
I'm building a windows 7 pc right now.

>>724222575
I dual-boot Win 7 and Win 10.

>>724239146
Based. Vintage computing is comfy. I hope you're using authentic 2009 hardware.

>>724239721
It's era accurate. Am3 board with an HD 5570 in one of those half height inwin cases. I have a bunch of stickers to cover it with. Very excited to play Dark Messiah on it.

>>724231325
Says the faggot who plays with children toys.

>>724222575
I will never understand why so many people on here vehemently hate Microsoft but refuse to learn how to use a Linux distro when there's a trillion different retard-proof easy ones and ones that you can make function and look almost identically to Windows.

>>724242281
Because nobody wants to swap in on a pc they already have. If they are going to switch they will do it with a new pc and buying a new pc is not common for the vast majority of people.

>>724242468
you don't understand, installing linux is scary, so many things that could go wrong, like not having windows anymore on your system.

I wanted to try fedora because i like the idea of it being up to date but not too much to where stuff breaks like arch, why do anons complain about it
I see people saying it's just "beta testing for red hat" or its somehow not actually private and is like windows and i dont get it
Is it just schizos or what, i dont follow this shit, i dont even know what would make that true or how it all affects me

>>724228598
>Not realizing 90+% of 4chan users are mentally retarded and rely on tard handlers for survival.

>>724228598
I've only ever been there like a dozen times or so

>>724243062
No Fedora is a good and popular choice, people are always arguing over distros here, use Fedora if it fits what you want.

>>724243062
fedora is a project handled by both redhat and the community. it's a middle ground between full corporate like ubuntu or popos.
there's nothing to worry about, the worst thing that could happen to it is that it gets discontinued.

>>724242281
It's not difficult at all to get a cheap drive, pop it in, and dual boot linux.

>>724222575
I saw a video on this.
Some asian AI startup was scraping for data using W7 emulators because they thought no one would know what they were up to if they used something so out of date. But they went overboard and managed to inflate the W7 usage stats globally.

>>724228598
Its real
See>>724228884
and the cause >>724243474

>>724222575
It's wild how easy it apparently was for microsoft to just trick half of their userbase into downgrading to 11 by pretending 10 would be useless

>>724222575
No point in bothering with linux anymore either. The jeets plan on ruining that too

>>724222829
I game using it
I just switch to my mint install if I need dx12 which is not very often

>>724243474
>i saw a video on this
ah yes, youtube, my favorite source of verifiable news and streamer cleavage.

>>724243474
"asian"
You don't even pass as human kumar

>>724233873
It took a bit to get it on there but it runs fine on my 13th gen comp. I make 4k vids using after effects(pirated obv) and resolve 18. I play crab champions, noita, portal 2 co-op and a bunch of random games like the forest with my bro who moved far away.
I make edm that can compete with any modern edm(mix wise, im no amazing composer) on it.
Cant imagine using 10 or fucking 11

>>724222873
0.07% for W7 on Steam.
Some jeetsoft tier quality survey.

>>724235621
I'm in Windows for the last few days for the first time in nearly a year. It's an old install of 10, but no hardware has been changed and there's nothing installed except some games. Here's a list of shit that doesn't work:
>Waking from sleep forces the monitor into 720p
>One wake caused the monitor to power on, but no signal was sent, had to ctrl-alt-del blind
>Setting desktop resolution back results in the wrong color profile if in SDR mode
>cold boots take minutes
>update nagging, even though auto updates are off
>computer wakes for no reason during the night and it's HOT wtf?
>mouse accel can't be turned off

The only thing like this with the Linux install is that waking from sleep doesn't automatically turn on the monitor.

>>724225894
>bugs and critical vulnerabilities out of the wazoo
That just describes Windows 11

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>>724243474
You're telling me a single startup managed to inflate global W7 market share from about 2% to over 20% in the span of 3 months?

>>724243586
>Its real
>quoted post says that it's not actually real
Wow, it's exactly as I said. People are not switching en-masse to Windows 7.

>>724237439
lol, I have everything still on disk

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>>724222575
I just really don't see a reason to upgrade. Like other anons here have said who cares about vulnerabilities if youre tech literate and don't fall for basic scam emails you're probably going to be fine.
Most everything works fine on W10, most old head companies still use WindowsXP or Windows7 as well. I cannot see technology advancing a reasonable amount for there to be a need to jump to W11 with it's bloatware, AI, and spying. Windows 10 debloated with Start11 from Stardock is pretty much all I need.

As of now there are also no good games that are W11 exclusive. W10 supports DX12... again theres just no point...

>>724244672
Not gonna lie, I did get a bit nervous when capcom made that big "we won't support W10" news post that showed up on Steam, but it'll probably be fine.

>>724244121
How about you find me an actual human being you know that actually switched to W7 in the recent months.

>>724244672
>if youre tech literate and don't fall for basic scam emails you're probably going to be fine.
vulnerabilities don't always require social engineering. it can be anything from intercepting your traffic to opening your favorite website with the infected ads.
you should be fucking terrified of vulnerabilities if you store anything somewhat relevant on your computer.

>>724228630
I haven't played a newly-released game in years. I couldn't give less of a shit.

>>724244950
It would make more sense if it was a shitload of companies doing this. Unless that startup is the size of Google there's no way it would have anywhere near that much impact on market share.

>>724244672
Also I can emulate every game from 1st-7th gen on Windows 10 just fine except for XBOX and Xbox360 games because the emulators suck but I can eventually just buy a modded version of the 360 with every game I want already loaded onto it. Also some games that heavily rely on gimmicks like nintedo wii games and DS games I can just mod as well.

Really the upgrade should only concern high profile companies because midwits get catfished easily and need babysitters.

>>724244796
That usually just means if it breaks on your machine they arent liable to fix it

>>724245086
Can you not just avoid this with VPN adblock and a decent antivirus software?

I never see ads on my PC. I only browse twitter, youtube, and 4chan because every form of content gets siphoned there anyways. I think its a valid concern btw I just don't really fully grasp how this is any different from people doing this exact thing to someone on say Linux or W11

>>724222575
Who fucking cares. The internet is dead. Ai is the internet 3.0.

Computing is dead. It will no longer be viable as an interactive collaborative mindhive. It will be entirely ai slop and marketing. There is no turning back. Theses will be some of your last moments in the world of "the internet".

The future will be services and subscriptions. Your OS wont matter. Your content and knowledge will be drip fed to you by algorithms and what you can afford.

Your only secure and reliable communications with be via traditional mail and face to face (if you can even call these things safe anymore with how much technology is jampacked into every little inch of your lives)

>>724245283
A shady AI startup running multiple VMs of W7 in order to bypass web scraping restrictions absolutely could inflate the stats. Since those stats usually exclude web scraping from declared sources because they're trying to measure real users.
This is just a case of the data reflecting something it wasn't trying to measure.

>>724222575
>>724222873
When it first came out the most agreed upon answer was that some taiwan company (all those new win7 installs were detected out of taiwan) spun up a bunch of processes for scraping data for their LLM training, gave them a fake win7 agent identifier, and then just launched way too many instances.

>>724245647
>traditional mail
My mailbox is already full of fake handwritten advertisements and it's genuinely disgusting.

>use vulnerability against a maintained system
>vulnerability gets patched
>gotta figure out a new vulnerability
vs
>use vulnerability against an unmaintained system
>can easily chain up vulnerabilities for full access because there's literally a catalogue of them
>can infect any system that tries to connect to you forever.

>anti virus
protection on the web works in layers, the weaker each layer is the more vulnerable you are, and your anti virus sure as shit isn't going to work on windows 7 either.

>>724245561
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>>724225894
>implying

anon please I'm still rocking ME m8

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are there any modern games that actually kick you out from playing if you're on windows 7? How does using steam work in 7?

>>724222575
>/v/
>We are talking about Windows/ Operating systems

>>724243945
It says "Edit Chart Data", so anon just made it up. At 180 replies so far, it clearly worked

>>724222668
Still runs on mine. LTSC

>>724228630
>drops support
for what? the new shitty AAA title I WON'T be buying?

>windows 10 will be the last windows
>windows as a service
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows
Is linux mint good enough?

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>>724225894
My only problems with W7 were artificially created by actors who wish to see W7 die
These problems were that programs would not work if I didn't have certain system dll files, so I had to find a way to find what dll it is and install it correctly for newer programs/new updates for old programs to run, and I couldn't use new hardware because the fags didn't create support for it and the custom drives are too shady for me to try
One thing that made me buttmad was learning that Python erased the single line of code that allowed newer Pythons to work on W7, so programs dependant on new Pythons such as video editors and downloaders didn't work, and I was stuck with very old editors and downloaders
After upgrading my hardware I finally bit the bullet and jumped to W10 because W7 doesn't run without gigantic gimmicks on my new CPU, but I use this piece of shit OS with a heavy heart. I miss my fucking Aero...

>>724248773
>Is linux mint good enough?
For video games?
Yes, If you like retro gaming and aren't interested in the latest and greatest.

>>724249418
>For video games?
For everything, any linux distro playing well with rtx 4000? I will be gaming and doing some AI fuckery like generating images and doing I2V.

>>724222728
least ESL post on /v/ right now

>>724249663
Retard

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>>724222575
>doesn't show linux having 98% because nobody likes macro$haft wangblowz lol

>>724248773
>good enough
For what? If your plan is to have a time-wasting exchange that ends with the goalposts at "good enough means being officially supported by all software that exists" then let's just skip to that part.
>>724249569
>For everything
Cool, yeah it's not going to run games that block Linux and it's not going to run Photoshop.
As a Linux distribution, it's fine. There are no games that only run on a specific Linux distribution, or if there are any, the amount of such games is so insignificant that I haven't heard of any. The most notable and objective downside of Mint is that it's based on Ubuntu LTS packages so it won't have the latest of anything unless you get it from Flatpak, so if the Linux kernel literally just added support for your graphics card in the past few months, it might not work. If your hardware is supported, it's fine. You don't have to let your self be memed into thinking games won't run without this morning's commits to random pacakges.

>>724245730
How would Win7 or VMs of WIn7 be able to bypass webscraping restrictions?

>>724249569
If you're on NVidia you're going to have a tougher time with compatibility since Linux works better with AMD products. You can try CachyOS, Bazzite, or Artix for more modern gaming. Almost every other distro works for retro gaming.
If you really want to dive deep into Linux, then it's either Gentoo or Arch.

>>724249569
you only have 2 real desktop environments on linux and those are gnome and kde, everything else is poorly staffed and maintained.
it surprises me everyday that people still recommend the dinosaur that is mint. go install bazzite.

>>724249569
>For everything, any linux distro playing well with rtx 4000? I will be gaming and doing some AI fuckery like generating images and doing I2V.
>Nvidia
Experience varies.
You could do both AI and gaming.
I recommend Settting up a dualboot and testing things out on a Linux mint installation before switching waiting has no purpose, either stick with windows or switch to linux or permanently dualboot.
For me I use, fedora kinoite and windows LTSC for all the windows exclusive stuff and another windows 11 system I work in a mixed environment. {These are not gaming decisions as I game fully on Linux.}
But mint is a fine option as well.

>>724228387
This thread reached 200 replies with some of them STILL believing OP's fake image despite anons already pointing out that it's fake.

>>724251395
It's not fake though. It's a bunch of 3rd worlders getting access to the internet for the first time.

>>724246551
Nvidia are massive jews and hate their customers so you have to have an AMD card if you want some type of dual boot setup.
Cards newer than 3800 do not have drivers for 7.
I succeeded in getting Elden ring to work on 7 but my graphics card wouldn't work with the vulcan setup I was using and I could only get 3 fps.
I hear you can make a small tweak and most things still work.