Support for Windows 7 to end January 2020 - update to Windows 10, goy!

Dumb question, does this mean if say, a year from now I do a clean install of 7 will it be able to still get all the old patches or do I need to take action now?
 
CrunkLord420 said:
I'm still dual boot win7 for certain gayms.

I might actually wait until a confirmed exploit is in the wild, and even then I bet you Microsoft patches it anyways.
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iirc, Microsoft did provide patches for XP years after they stopped supporting it when some rather nasty SMB based exploits were discovered.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
I like Windows 10.

Fight me.
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Yeah I work on a 10 machine at work a lot and maybe that machine is just good hardwareswise or something but it's really not that bad. I've really grown to like "alt tab then click on the one you want".
 
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XYZpdq said:
Dumb question, does this mean if say, a year from now I do a clean install of 7 will it be able to still get all the old patches or do I need to take action now?
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You'll still be able to download all previously available updates through Windows Update, they just won't release new ones (except maybe super-critical emergency security fixes).
 
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Goodnight, sweet prince. You may not be first in my boot order anymore, but you'll always be first in my heart.*
*Except for your default command line, holy christ that thing sucked.
 
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Spedestrian said:
Goodnight, sweet prince. You may not be first in my boot order anymore, but you'll always be first in my heart.*
*Except for your default command line, holy christ that thing sucked.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the bullshit command line that maximized to half screen. Rose colored glasses.
 
Blini Cat said:
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?
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The only good thing about Windows 10 is that you can use Powershell to uninstall a lot of the new UWP crap on there. Network settings are particularly infuriating. Why are connections to wireless networks and the disabling/enabling on network adaptors not managed from the same place?

Thank Fuck For Evil Otto said:
Windows 8 was actually pretty nice, once you hacked a Start menu back into it with Start8. It was significantly faster than 7.
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To the extent this is true, it is only true because Microsoft deliberately broke support for newer processors in Win7.

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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Wrong. Mac OS 7.6.1 is the best OS ever.
 
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I switched to Linux after Windows 10 came out and for awhile I couldn’t game because WINE was a nightmare but Steam Proton works wonders. The only reason I’d ever go back to Windows is if they re released Windows 7, but kept it as it is, just with more security updates.
 
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TheBest said:
I switched to Linux after Windows 10 came out and for awhile I couldn’t game because WINE was a nightmare but Steam Proton works wonders. The only reason I’d ever go back to Windows is if they re released Windows 7, but kept it as it is, just with more security updates.
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Lots of people also like Lutris as a front-end for WINE, it supports different wine versions in it's own independent way from your distro so you don't have to go out and find the right staging repo or whatever. I believe they also have support for Proton as a "runner".

I used Lutris to run Magic Arena since there's a specific Unity bug that needs a specific WINE version and Lutris "just werx" when it comes to switching WINE runners like that.

Just FYI for those who don't want to bother with wine on the CLI.
 
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>mfw you niggas still use cia niggers provided systems instead of Temple OS

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BrunoMattei said:
I like Windows 10.

Fight me.
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I don't like it, but I don't hate it. It's alright. If they got rid of auto-updates and hand holding bullshit like preventing you from turning off all the security features and stopped spamming me with messages about dumb bullshit I'd probably consider it genuinely good. Every time Microsoft takes a step forward they take two steps back.
 
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Never Scored said:
Why that one specifically?
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7.6 in general was great.. still nice and simple and incredibly easy to use, but already supported the fancy new PowerPCs fully and bundled the Mac networking functionality that would be used until Mac OS X. 7.6.1 just tidied up a few remaining bugs with newer hardware. 8 was bloated and had no real improvements, if you really needed fancy themes you could just add a theme extension to 7. And 9 was a travesty. For all the nonsense about pre 8.6 Mac OS and cooperative multitasking, the previous versions never felt slow in any real way.

Those older Mac OS versions were always more stable than modern Windows, despite offering the programmer infinite scope to screw everything up- as indicated by the fact that Linux on a 68K Mac is most easily booted by running a regular application within the Mac OS that gradually loads the Linux kernel into memory and takes control of the hardware.
 
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What do we need to install to gut all of the spyware out of Windows 10? I hate that I will have to figure this out soon instead of just using 7...
 
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