Thread 106830733

Does anyone else feel a sense of melancholy and longing when looking back on Windows 7? I ditched Windows for Linux a decade ago so I shouldn't care, but I miss the times when Windows was something that was pushing Linux to improve the user experience, rather than a social experiment to check how much retarded shit you can force on people and still have them use the product.

>>106830733 (OP)
Simpler times, less responsibilities, less shit going on in the world that your pocket rectangle of doom tells you about pretty 24/7.

Nostalgia is a bitch.

>>106830733 (OP)
daily baby duck cope thread

>>106830733 (OP)
Because it actually looks good. It's the best looking / most polished version aside from 98. It's vista but actually finished.

I went back to Windows 7 and everything has been great.

>>106830733 (OP)
Aero is so fucking beautiful
take me back

Back when things where pretty.

>>106830733 (OP)
>melancholy
everyone thinks this word means something it doesn't

just fucking use windows 7 holy shit

>>106831133
This, 2009 had such dope OSes even the macfags had snow leopard which dropped power pc code and was super fast and light.

>>106830733 (OP)
Nah, W7 was really mediocre. Shit got me to finally go full Linux.
The only good Windoze was XP.
t. started with W98

>>106830733 (OP)
Hate to break it to ya bud but WindowsXp was the only "good" windows OS ever made. Then they made vista which was the windows11 of its time and backtracked with windows7 which was shittier than XP with more bloat and spyware but better than Vista. Then they made windows 8 which was the win11 of its time and then they backtracked with windows10 which was shittier than win7 with even more bloat and spyware. Now we are on windows 11 which is the shittiest Operating system they have ever made and they will either stay on this one or do the backtrack and make a windows12 which again will be shittier than windows10 with more bloat/spyware but less than win11 which will make all the retarded faggots love it.

This method of predictive programing is called "the boiling pot" every other version of windows is intentionally bad on purpose to trick the slaves into accepting the next version of OS by virtue that its not the last one. Tik. Tok. Tik. Tok. back and forth to incrementally accept more spyware and more abuse.

>>106830733 (OP)
>I miss the times when Windows was something that was pushing Linux to improve the user experience, rather than a social experiment to check how much retarded shit you can force on people and still have them use the product.
This type of humiliation ritual has been ingrained into all aspects of society post-2012 as goyim's punishment and diversion from occupy wall street, they have decided to fast boil the frogs and will reap the consequences, so don't worry because this dark era will implode and be over soon

>>106830733 (OP)
I have that feeling for windows xp. 7 already feels very heavy and bloated in comparison.

>>106830733 (OP)
the term youre looking for is hiraeth

stop making these threads man. yes its good, now shut up

>>106830733 (OP)
No. Vista was slow garbage and you're a zoomer

>>106831133
7 era was based there were always at least 2-3 free wifi networks wherever you went

>>106830733 (OP)
I long for WinXP era, that was much better gaming and user experience for me. I can feel the increase performance with new yearly hardware upgrades whereas with the bloat from Win Vista and up things felt slow no matter your yearly hardware upgrades due to all that software bloat and inefficiency these software devs stopped caring to optimized for due to muh modern system has so much resources to spare!

>>106830733 (OP)
Alright stop, spill the beans.
What’s the CVE you guys got?
It’s gotta be really juicy for all these 7 dick sucking threads to keep popping up.

>>106830733 (OP)
>>106831184
just by looking at these I can remember my trauma of viruses back in the day

>>106836344
That's the thing, no juicy CVE exists. Windows 7 with a supported browser behind a NAT is bulletproof.

>>106833643
My favourite Welsh word

>>106831184
Nope, win7 was last pure windows just look at that mess that is win10/11

>>106832580
>and then they backtracked with windows10
No, windows 10 was windows 11 of its time.

>>106836510
>bulletproof
No such thing on the whole, but it is definitely a lot safer than the fear-mongerers and updooters would like you to believe, that would not be wrong, no.

yes a lot of nostalgia, because the young generation of today were in their 20s when win7 was in its prime.

>>106836774
bot post

>>106833642
I have that for XP, hailing from 98/ME.
You could comfortably run BF1942 in ME with 256MB RAM, but you needed 512MB in XP to do that.

I think the jump from XP to 7 was less taxing on hardware than the jump from 95/98/ME/DOS-kernel to NT-kernel XP, which was also a jump from a 16-bit to 32-bit base architecture.

>>106830733 (OP)
If Liquid Glass actually takes off, do you guys think that all other companies would follow suit or no?

>>106836819
>95/98/ME/DOS-kernel to NT-kernel XP, which was also a jump from a 16-bit to 32-bit base architecture.
I am mistaken
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/25628/why-was-the-dos-kernel-discarded

>>106831767
that looks unusable
elements that can be interacted with need to have more shape, preferrably 3D shapes. the research on this goes back like 50 years

>>106831184
OP uses Linux you illiterate retard

>>106830733 (OP)
>Does anyone else feel a sense of melancholy and longing when looking back on Windows 7?
I never "look back" on Windows 7, because I'm using it right now.

>>106836957
>Enterprise Edition
kek
>As you were, Mr. Anon.

>>106830733 (OP)
>melancholy and longing
>over pixels on your screen
that's GAY

>>106836957
Can you test the latest VSCode or a VSCode fork with the Remote Tunnel extension?

I'm not sure if VSCode with Tunnel Access to a remote work server will work on Windows 7.

>>106830733 (OP)
>Does anyone else feel a sense of melancholy and longing when looking back on Windows 7?
No, but I do when I look at old screenshots of Windows ME. Everything after that just pissed me off. It ran modern (at the time) games. It played videos. It ran old old old DOS programs no problemo. I used Acid to make music. Shit was cash.
Sigh.

>>106830733 (OP)
Yes, but Plasma 4 hits me harder desu. First iterations sucked ass but the latest ones got polished and holy shit those were good

>>106831133
this is not nostalgia, Win 7 was simply better - less bloat and much prettier UI

>>106836957
based

>>106836871
that was interesting read anon, thanks

>>106832158
The best Windows was actually Windows 2000, not XP.

>>106830733 (OP)
>I ditched Windows for Linux a decade ago so
Why do they always feel the need to let you know?

>>106836824
liquid glass is more flat than visual effects they had before
kek, lmao even
t. themed tahoe today
spoiler it's really bad

>>106841170
This, with XP-64bit and the 2003 Server 64 that it was based on as a close second.

>>106836824
>If Liquid Glass actually takes off
people seem to really hate it so it likely won't

you can theme win11 to look like this right now with windhawk

>>106841378
Your modern bullshit will never run the same as the real thing.
https://cy-x.net/articles?id=25

>Scroll through any Windows theming community and you'll find the same tragic pattern: hundreds of users desperately trying to make Windows 10 and 11 look and behave like Windows 7, Vista, or XP. They've created an entire ecosystem of hacks, patches, and third-party tools to fight against the very operating system they're choosing to run.

>It's digital Stockholm syndrome. They hate what Microsoft has done to Windows, but instead of leaving, they've dedicated their lives to playing dress-up with an increasingly hostile system.

>>106841378
Almost nobody complains about the look of Windows 11 though, users complain about its flaws. No matter how hard you try to have Windows 11 looking like something else, it's still Windows 11.

>>106830733 (OP)
why feel melancholic when you can experience it now? i honestly dare say i kinda never left, i held onto 7 till mid 2010s despite everything, and even then i riced whatever i had after to look like 7, be it windows 10 or linux

>>106841407
Then run windows 7. What is the point of bitching ?

>>106841407
who cares? i run linux, its not increasingly hostile compared to windows and yet i decide to make it skinwalk windows 7, im not here because i want to run dated software that refuses to even boot in my current machine, no, i want a similar experience.
also windows 11 is awful for ricing, at the very least use 10 ltsc, i dont care if you are paranoid about the eol of the mainline 10 at least just stick to 10

>>106841620
thats called cope, im pretty sure most modern machines are locked to have the most modern version of uefi, which isnt supported by 7, as such its either any windows after 8 or modern linux, choose your pill in other words

>>106831767
flat shit

>>106841652
bsd, sure might be an option but you'd probably wind up with even less support than linux, despite the surprising amount of apps, it's still a surprising amount, more than you'd expect, but remember to keep expectations low so to not get disappointed later on

>>106836824
I installed tahoe on my work pc and it honestly looks like toddler shit with ridiculously big buttons and other retarded UX shit you would only find in gnome.

its clearly jeet UX

>>106831133
I have the same responsibilities and don't have a cell phone. Yet I still long for Win7.

>>106834717
Based, gen a kids will never know the joy of an unsecured linksys router

>>106841821
for me it was the abundance of wep secured routers. You could run aircrack and get free wifi in minutes.

I long for my youth, what OS I used back then is irrelevant. if anything I feel more nostalgic about vista and kde3
there are people on /g/ rn who will be sperging about muh w10 and making threads just like this one for the next decade as well
>guys look this jeet's repo, he backported DLLs from w11 and now you run steam again!
>windows 10 tikka masala chads can't stop winning!

No, fuck off zoomer, it always looked like shit

>>106841886
>backported DLLs from w11 to 10
This will definitely happen for sure. 10 users hate 11 more than 7 users hated 8/8.1/10/11.

>>106841607
>kwin plasma I thought It didn't work on there?

>>106842478
MacOS.

>>106841952
>hate
Wrong attitude, it gets you nowhere.

>>106842520

MacOS is even more invasive than Windows.

>>106842478
If that’s your preferred way to convince yourself to stay on Windows, then it’s your choice. I honestly don’t care if devs of certain projects are politically vocal on either side as long as that doesn’t hamper actual development majorly (from my experience, it doesn’t, I’m using my Linux install like a normal person, give Wayland as much flack as you want, I give less of a shit if you call me a crossdresser just for using that)

>>106842747
bump

>>106831184
sovl

>>106831934
but muh security

>>106831640
Bloat and looks like a toy.

>>106841378
You can also put lipstick on a man and call it a woman.

>>106830733 (OP)
Windows 11 looks pretty good if you get a nice wallpaper that makes the mica effect pop nicely. I don't really have any nostalgia for W7, I spent more time on XP and cursed W8 than I did on W7 that I used for less than a year. It always just felt like a pig with lipstick, vista with slight polish. I prefer high test versions of windows, where you can feel the self-made man clash himself into shape and create something great and avangarde, Vista, 8, 11 were all high test versions just dedicating their hearts and creating something new. The follower beta male versions of 7, 8.1, 10 are ick inducing.

>>106831184
>baby duck
Not OP, I started on DOS and then Windows 3.11
I still think Vista was the best looking Windows.

>>106840321
win11 is not cybertruck, its same indian container bin as 10 but somehow even worse.
and linux thanks to proton is now functional os.

>>106841607
>chrome
Why would you willingly install malware?

>>106842531
>attitude
Who asked you, faggot?