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Support for Windows 7 to end January 2020 - update to Windows 10, goy!
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I just want to trim the UI down to the most basic bitch layouts like back in XP, without having to tweak shit that'll inherently make my PC have an autistic shitfit because Windows Updates or system rebooting resets the registry to a previous state.
Windows 10 Mobile is a dead platform and so many aesthetic UI elements shouldn't be presented by default on such devices without touch input (my laptop). It looks like Boogie's fence sitting but as a graphical user interface, does it want to be a desktop or a fucking tablet even outside tablet mode? I don't want to go through Powershell or something else to remove elements to simplify everything. Cue old man shaking his cane.
Windows 10 Mobile is a dead platform and so many aesthetic UI elements shouldn't be presented by default on such devices without touch input (my laptop). It looks like Boogie's fence sitting but as a graphical user interface, does it want to be a desktop or a fucking tablet even outside tablet mode? I don't want to go through Powershell or something else to remove elements to simplify everything. Cue old man shaking his cane.
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Oh, my sympathies. They're end of lifing that next month. Your best bet is definitely to go with Linux going forward, Windows 10 'Mobile' (i.e. ARM laptop/phone edition) never saw real business adoption so they won't care about bad PR if you get viruses due to unpatched vulnerabilities.
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I have heard rumors - I don't believe them - that a further update of Win10 will involve a major kernel update that'll be a locked down Linux. But again, I don't believe it.
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There actually is a modded Windows 10 made specifically to be spyware free. You'll need some familiarity with a command line to do certain things though. For example, they had to disable security patches (otherwise Microsoft could just reinstall spyware) so for security reasons you need to not have an account with admin privileges on the machine. Gotta memorize how to give and revoke that privilege as you need it.
Some other stuff that you'll probably need it for since they had to gut huge chunks of the OS to keep your porn habits secure. Better to just learn an Ubuntu OS and transition to Linux based stuff for the future. Keep a Windows partition for programs that won't run without it.
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Using Windows 10 LTSC takes care of a lot of the crap packaged with retail Windows. Then you can run ShutUp10 or something like that to stop most of the remaining telemetry. This is as close to a Windows 7 experience as I have gotten.
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I wish you could get windows classic look in win10
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After an update a week or two ago I'm getting a "This copy of Windows 7 isn't genuine" in the corner.
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Looks like they're starting early.After an update a week or two ago I'm getting a "This copy of Windows 7 isn't genuine" in the corner.
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This is why I never let it contact the mother ship behind my back.After an update a week or two ago I'm getting a "This copy of Windows 7 isn't genuine" in the corner.
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So should I update from Windows ME or not?
What the fuck am I supposed to do without Clippy, brah?
What the fuck am I supposed to do without Clippy, brah?
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This is why I run Manjaro as my actual OS and then use a Windows 10 VM with a GPU passthrough to do gaming on. So when I want to game I just fire up the VM, otherwise I just stick to doing things on my main OS.
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Graphic designers, people who build user interfaces, etc. can be the most pretentious twats about what's yours versus what's theirs, IE "get used to it", "get with the times", or my favorite, "go back to riding horses to work" if you don't like their way. Like with what happened to Android after 4.0, stock Android stopped being properly situated for tablets, Android 3.0 had its problems but at least it looked like it was made for large screens. After Android 5.0 everything went from sensibly black and gray and white to just bleach white and teal all over.
Inherently block access to tools to make it as accessible as possible with each major OS update because "the old way" is autistic kryptonite.
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Welp, looks like 3/4 of our monitoring equipment at work will stop working. Yay.
We have Fluke equipment and it works fine with Windows 7. Worked fine with XP. However, if you update to Windows 10, the programs and licenses to use equipment we've owned for over a decade becomes "service" oriented. Where every individual piece of equipment requires a $30,000 per computer (yes, each piece, of which there's over a dozen, will have to have separate licenses for each of the 20+ computers we could possibly use it on) license to communicate with it, not counting the communication software that is $50,000 per computer.
Or we just won't be able to do a damn thermal test ever again.
We have Fluke equipment and it works fine with Windows 7. Worked fine with XP. However, if you update to Windows 10, the programs and licenses to use equipment we've owned for over a decade becomes "service" oriented. Where every individual piece of equipment requires a $30,000 per computer (yes, each piece, of which there's over a dozen, will have to have separate licenses for each of the 20+ computers we could possibly use it on) license to communicate with it, not counting the communication software that is $50,000 per computer.
Or we just won't be able to do a damn thermal test ever again.
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Ouch.
It sounds like there are a couple things you should look into:
- Dedicating computers (and potentially stockpiling backups of old Thinkpads with OEM Win7 licenses) to being used with this equipment. Going forward you would need to be very careful about avoiding making those connectable to the internet (as employees will do it if they can, even if they shouldn't).
- If these devices are connected via USB or USB-serial converters, whether USB passthrough works with VirtualBox or VMWare, for these. If it does, reliably, then you might consider talking to an IT provider with MS licensing exterprise about getting licenses with downgrade rights that would allow you to run Win7 or older VMs on all your technician's hardware (you could also buy old packaged copies of Win7 off ebay, but there's a good chance you get scammed/can't find enough/or can't find enough licenses without buying from 20 different sellers. Buying OEM Win7 from Amazon would not cover this situation)
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Why will it "stop working"?
If this stuff isn't sitting on the internet then who cares.
The orginization I work for still has a NT machine doing nothing but running access control and hvac for a few buildings. The IT dept discovered those IDE hard drive emulators that use SDcards so there is nothing hardware related to stop it now.
We have another application that was ported from Solaris to Redhat only because maintaining sparc hardware in the numbers we needed wasn't feasible. Stuff we have running under windows server 2003 and 2012r2 has been put in VM's on modern hardware. Last I looked our phone system loggers (CallFocus) all run on XPsp2.
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