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I'm surprised the support will end before 8 and 8.1. I expected support for the latter to end sooner or for it all to end close together given how hated W8 was. It was a good OS and my 2nd favorite before XP.

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The greatest operating system ever built. I started using it when they released the Beta build 7000 publicly. It got me off a Mac and back on the Windows train.

We all got to see what a nearly perfect Computer OS looks like. That will probably never happen again. Windows 10 is OK, but because of Microsoft's new philosophy of an OS as a service as opposed to an end product sold to the user, it's essentially going to be in perpetual beta.

Here, have some free autism.
 
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Never Scored said:
The greatest operating system ever built. I started using it when they released the Beta build 7000 publicly. It got me off a Mac and back on the Windows train.

We all got to see what a nearly perfect Computer OS looks like. That will probably never happen again. Windows 10 is OK, but because of Microsoft's new philosophy of an OS as a service as opposed to an end product sold to the user, it's essentially going to be in perpetual beta.
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At the very least, this model of thinking will only affect businesses for the moment.
 
Windows 10 is absolutely fucking horrible and I don't care what anyone else says.
Everything "good" about it is a watered down holdover from 7. Due to this there's TONS of glitchy vestigial features which don't work anymore and it pisses me off every time I try to go slightly off the path Microsoft decides is good for me at the current moment. It's like using an iPhone as my PC!
The only "Usable" version of 10 is Server (Because you can turn off their shitty updates and services. Microsoft knows not to tangle with the sysadmin autismball or else there'll be beheadings).
Frankly I don't see this as very sustainable, the ReactOS project is desperately in need of money and not entirely usable ATM so I think I might switch to OpenBSD once I get sick of Windows.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Windows 7 was the XP successor we always wanted. Vista wasn't optimized properly, and 8/8.1 was a flop because of poor implementation. Window 10 was the best of both worlds, but not as good as it could've been.
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Eh, Windows 10 could be better if they didn't force the updates on you often. Though I felt that an issue with Win 7 to some extent, so who am I to judge?
 
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Windows 10 is absolutely fucking horrible and I don't care what anyone else says.
Everything "good" about it is a watered down holdover from 7. Due to this there's TONS of glitchy vestigial features which don't work anymore and it pisses me off every time I try to go slightly off the path Microsoft decides is good for me at the current moment. It's like using an iPhone as my PC!
The only "Usable" version of 10 is Server (Because you can turn off their shitty updates and services. Microsoft knows not to tangle with the sysadmin autismball or else there'll be beheadings).
Frankly I don't see this as very sustainable, the ReactOS project is desperately in need of money and not entirely usable ATM so I think I might switch to OpenBSD once I get sick of Windows.
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Agree 100%. Things like the Settings app drive me crazy. The majority of the things it does are also in Control Panel, but occasionally you'll have to open it up because an app doesn't exist in Programs & Features and you have to remove it in Settings. Just ridiculous. Why not just include "advanced options" for power users if they want a simpler interface for users who are used to mobile? Why duplicate things and make it more confusing and frustrating for everyone? Why bother releasing Home and Professional versions if sysadmins are still out there ripping out Candy Crush from fresh installs?

Thankfully I only really use Windows at work. My Windows 7 machine I barely use, just to play a handful of games that don't run on Linux. I'll probably keep it around as long as I can.
 
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Coolio55 said:
Windows 10 is absolutely fucking horrible and I don't care what anyone else says.
Everything "good" about it is a watered down holdover from 7. Due to this there's TONS of glitchy vestigial features which don't work anymore and it pisses me off every time I try to go slightly off the path Microsoft decides is good for me at the current moment. It's like using an iPhone as my PC!
The only "Usable" version of 10 is Server (Because you can turn off their shitty updates and services. Microsoft knows not to tangle with the sysadmin autismball or else there'll be beheadings).
Frankly I don't see this as very sustainable, the ReactOS project is desperately in need of money and not entirely usable ATM so I think I might switch to OpenBSD once I get sick of Windows.
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This is all very true, but it also means you can run 99% of what Windows 10 can on your Windows 7 operating system. "Ending support" doesn't mean anything presently other than you won't receive any of the "features" Windows 10 has, such as telemetry-based spying that you can't ever turn off and gaudy, useless bloatware apps. (And before someone recommends LTSB, it's packaged into that as well.)
 
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Never Scored said:
The greatest operating system ever built. I started using it when they released the Beta build 7000 publicly. It got me off a Mac and back on the Windows train.

We all got to see what a nearly perfect Computer OS looks like. That will probably never happen again. Windows 10 is OK, but because of Microsoft's new philosophy of an OS as a service as opposed to an end product sold to the user, it's essentially going to be in perpetual beta.

Here, have some free autism.
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Windows 8 was actually pretty nice, once you hacked a Start menu back into it with Start8. It was significantly faster than 7. You could mute the 10-like elements easily. Windows 10 LTSC also isn't bad, as it has most of the Metro crapps removed. It only gets major updates every 2 (or 3?) years, so just security and bug fixes. Definitely faster and more stable than normal Windows 10 installs.

I tried to stick to 7 for a long time, but switching between that and 8 or 10 made it obvious that it was inferior in many ways. Going back to 7 now feels like going back to Windows 95 felt when 7 first came out.
 
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That's not going to stop me from using it for as long as possible. I have updates disabled anyway and only (manually) add ones that are necessary for games to run (mostly DirectX and Visual C++ runtime shit). DX12 could be a problem in the long term but for the foreseeable future it shouldn't, because (A) MS has grudgingly allowed certain developers to back-port DX12 functionality to W7 on a game-by-game basis, and (B) Vulkan is platform-agnostic and seems like it's going to be the next big API after DX11.
 
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