Thread 106873597

Pros & Cons?

Yes you can
Pros: it's not Windows 10/11
Cons: it's Windows

Microsoft had perfection with windows 7 and it just went to shit after that. What the fuck happened?

>>106873597 (OP)
Pros: You'll get ransomed and I'll laugh
Cons:

>>106873732
Falling for tablet overhype with 8.0, not doing much to rectify that with 8.1 and after massive backlash making Windows 10 full of anal probes to make sure improvements will be made depending on how normies use their computers.

>>106873732
>>106874028
There's no reason to use 7 when 10 exists. 7 is just a shittier version of 10. Go XP, or 98, or go home.

>>106873597 (OP)
I run this on my cellar PC with no internet. Its very good for compability. My printers don't work with newer OS and I won't buy new ones.

>>106873732
>What the fuck happened?
Indians.
>>106873597 (OP)
Pros:
You can still run like 90% of all windows software.
No telemetry. No ads. No bloat. Comfy.

Cons: initial configuration might be a bitch if you want extended compatibility with never apps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FYpXlv-dXI
https://github.com/i486/VxKex
It won't run 100% of the software.
You're still limited to hardware that has compatible drivers available.
Retards and indians will hate you and try to demoralize you.

That's about it. Enjoy it. Or don't. Idgaf.

no, https://cy-x.net/articles?id=13

>>106874040
There's no reason to use 10 when 11 exists. 10 is just a shittier version of 11. Go 7, XP, or go home.

>>106874101
>never apps
SAAAARRR

>>106873597 (OP)
As long as you dont mind installing vxkex which is despite being open source largely unverifiable code, you can make win 7 work with new software fine-ish. Steam works, vivaldi (though i havent bothered to update in a while also vscode)

>>106873732
The US voted a nigger for president

>>106873597 (OP)
No because Windows XP/7/POS all have spyware telemetry tracking in the background, +30 thousand CVEs every month and nothing works, no drivers, no software, no games, no work applications, nothing. I use Linux because I have no time for regedit and command line tinkering and I have to use Linux for real work.

is there an argument for using it via KVM, with firewalls and such on the linux end? is that any safer than running win7 on bare metal?

>>106875793
actually nevermind, i'll just continue using linux instead of trying to relive the past for nostalgic reasons

>>106874040
10 is just a shittier 11, there is no reason to use either though because windows was always bad

Windows 7 is blazing fast off a SSD and can work well on old Ivy Bridge systems. Might even run off Haswell, I think. Make sure you use Supermium with it.

>>106873597 (OP)
You absolutely can, unless maybe you fell for the meme of modern hardware.
Pros: most practical widows version made so far, no nagging, no accounts, no bitlocker, you make updooters seethe by using it etc.
Cons: Some nuslopware simply wont work, even with VxKex, so if you rely on it, you are out of luck, unless you have spare machine with nuwindows.

>>106873597 (OP)
Pros: Best Windows version. (Yes, 2000 was great too but you can't realistically still use it in 2025)
Cons: Modern hardware won't work. Too many new software won't run, even with VxKex. :(

Basically, the question only arises for computers that are not too old and not too recent either.
If it's a very new computer, you can't install 7 on it, so it'll be either 10 or Linux.
If it's an old computer you are using, you don't have any other choice anyway: 10/11 will be unusably slow, Linux will be usable but will take long to boot and will feel sluggish (even xfce), while 7 will just fly even on a mechanical hard disk.

Pros: nothing
Cons: you can't run shit, you have no malware protection or firewall.

>>106873732
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLUSnPB08kc

>>106873597 (OP)
Pros:
>somewhat less telemetry
>significantly less retarded
>non-globohomo desktop environment
>no AI shit
>no forced updates
>no online account
>deliberate bloat to force you to buy new hardware was added so long ago that anything you have will probably run it well
Cons:
>if it has vulnerabilities they will not be patched, just be careful about this and keep up to date if anyone finds any
>compatibility with newer software/hardware will not be as smooth as on an OS that's still receiving updates. Be prepared to do a little digging to get certain things to work.

>>106876833
Interesting, I have an old laptop from the windows 7 days that ran like ass until I installed Debian on it. I guess it wasn't quite a fair comparison because my family had put 3 or 4 different antiviruses on it, but I still find Linux with LXQT or Xfce to be significantly faster than win7, though it's still a bit slow. Maybe I'll look into a lighter distro to put on it with a tiling wm.

>>106875528
>Windows XP/7/POS all have spyware telemetry tracking in the background
Trivial to disable. Skill issue.

>>106875528
Tell me exactly which service/app in POSReady 2009 has telemetry, because I've been using it forever and I've never seen it. Also nothing in POSReady 2009 requires regedit save for a single entry for closing a netbt port, which doesn't do shit if left open anyways.

Bump!
Waiting for the schizo poster

>>106880017
kek
>RUSSIAN POORFAG BOTFARM BABYDUCK
What did I miss?

>>106877135
sick meme, /b/ro, but do go back to your containment /b/oard

VxKex has gone a long way in extending the life of Windows 7 for me. I'm home.

>>106880154
Can you explain this meme please?

>>106880182
It's on the shirt you braindead nigger.

>>106875129
11 is shittier than 10 thoughbeitever.

>>106877328
>sizeofcat playing with the tab being out of focus
lel fune

>>106873597 (OP)
Shit software compatibility and many features missing or being worse are the downsides. Lots of security holes too that haven't been fixed.
Upside is that it spies a little less.

>>106873597 (OP)
non bloated non space wasting ui that is actually good for small scale/resolution displays (the holy classic theme)
has vxkex
works with any AMD hardware and with gpus up to nvidia3000 and radeon 6000

>>106880286
No one in this thread has malware fren

>>106880571
Not yet

>>106880571
Pic down, I wonder why.

>>106880597
Baby duck seethe or psyop damage control. Call it

>>106880612
>PSYOP DAMAGE CONTROL
Fuck I didn't have this one on the bingo card

Jeetmond on suicide watch

>>106873597 (OP)
I have an Iphone 18 pro ma and a PC with windows 7 installed . it has USB 3 and the pro max has a high speed usb c connection so I should be able to use it for free high speed internet but the Apple mobile Ethernet driver will not connect with the USV 3 on this mb... If anyone knows of a source for a driver that will work with USB 3 please say so also firefox esr was the only browser I could gte to work

>>106873597 (OP)
niga im using windows xp as my daily driver lol supermium or w.e. and i browse /g/ and download youtube

>>106873597 (OP)
of you use win7 you are being antisemite, stop seek help

>>106880869
post desktop

>>106880970
I sought and I sought but... where I do look for help sir please help me

>>106873597 (OP)
I never understood why they made windows so childish. Windows xp was a fucking toy, then vista and 7 were equally ridiculous and childish. Windows 10 was the nail in the coffin, the spware, malware, ads, instability.. Even if you are a complete retard, installing something stupid like Linux Mint will work so much better that any slop that comes from microsoft.

>>106873597 (OP)
already am

>>106881256
>I never understood why they made windows so childish. Windows xp was a fucking toy
In what sense?

>>106877328
>non-globohomo
Spotted the rabid kacap mouthbreather with AIDS.

>>106877328
>cons
Windows 7 is still in 6-year ESU.
You can activate it with TSforge and manually install the monthly rollup packages from the Microsoft update catalog.

>>106880151
>ayy le meme's!
You're just salivating at all the new 7 installs you're going to find after this thread, aren't you, Marina? All nice and lined up for your FSB botnet.
Did anyone bite yet?

>>106881256
>doesn't know about XP Classic which came pre-installed
>thinks Aero is childish and not THE corpo style of the time
Sometimes I forget I share a board with the bottom of the barrel of human intellect.

>>106880698
>subhuman moskal mouthbreather expects you to have some convoluted, pointless setup like this to gain control of your computer.

>>106878325
>Trivial to disable.
Same goes for 10, but you retards seem to think it's different somehow

unironically I had an easier time hamfisting security updates from a vista security patch to windows 7 than i just did 7 hours of normally updating windows 10

>>106881542
Bullshit. Can't be unpozzed. Nothing works unless it's permanently online. Even shit that you supposedly disabled turns back on while you're not looking.

>>106873597 (OP)
for home use, sure. the major issue is that you won't be getting the latest browsers, which will lead to compatibility issues, primarily with big streaming sites. if you are a pirate though, there is no fucking issue.

Still use windows 7 for all my projects / music editing / gamedevving lmao

>>106882099
>you won't be getting the latest browsers
Do you consider Firefox ESR 115 to be the latest? Haven't had problems with streaming sites with it.

>>106873597 (OP)
you dont need to anymore AllStartBack.exe

>>106875036
>look mom i posted it again

>>106877303
Did this faggot really think that some gay ass tablets would make desktop PCs extinct?

>>106881339
Wdym what sense? Are you blind?

>>106881488
Yeah classic is more serious but they didn't leave it there for you to use it, they left it there because they were lazy to remove it. Look at later windows, same story, windows 10 came with installed colorful games in the menu and ads, you are treated like a toddler, sign in here to continue using our system, cuck!

>>106883582
Do you think Kairi and Sora fucked or is he too beta for her?