Windows 7 users won't let go of the aging OS

[On Watch]

The greatest task that humanity has ever had to undertake is stopping climate change

Microsoft is adding to this problem by making a whole lot of otherwise perfectly good computers obsolete by stopping support of Windows 7. Why – for their own continuing financial gain.

Its time they did their bit to mitigate the waste and unnecessary production they are causing.

 

[treetops]

Going from windows 95 to 98 to XP to 7 was gratifying. I tried out 10 for FREE and reverted back to 7 within an hour. If you like 10 then more power to you. I have a tablet\smart phone\consoles\desktop and I prefer my desktop computer. Windows 10 felt like a tablet OS and it had ads in the start menu... Vulkan proves you don't even need 10 for direct x 12. I will pass on it just like I did Vista\8.

If 10 is windows last OS, they will be replaced by free alternatives. All google has to do is advertise it's OS like it did it's browser, Chrome on google search and poof! Bye bye windows. They could just copy windows 7 like they did Firefox.

p.s. Why make a game for DirectX 12 that only runs on 1 OS, when you can make a game for Vulkan that runs on multiple?

 

[Knot Schure]

I'm just here to give hugs and hand out tissues.

Hey commie!

Its hardly a laughing matter...

 

[Brother]

I installed win10 on my Dell 7040 and the mouse was shaky reason? It was using the bios driver. Seems as win 7 is aging so is Microsoft why not we get rid of it too?
Win7 Rocks, Win10 sucks

 

[doomworm]

I "won't let go" of Windows 7 for the same reason I "won't let go" of my 2012 model car. Sure newer cars are probably safer, get better mileage, and have more bells and whistles, but mine runs like a champ, is very comfy, still looks great, and does exactly what I want it to do.

 

[Kenmtb]

Upgrades are inevitable. Unfortunately microsoft seems to make each iteration of windows more dumbed down and harder to navigate. I hate having to start from ground zero and relearn how to do basic things on my own PC. Oh wait it is not mine but microsoft's PC now.

 

[rickst35]

What about drivers. I'm oooold... Back in the day (y'know, when we rode dinosaurs to school), linux didn't have so much in the way of drivers, hence the old joke "why does the linux car never win in nascar? Because it's hard to get good drivers".

More recently - roughy the last 3 years - I can buy almost any add-on card or new drive, plug it in - and it just works. I've got Blu-Ray Burners, Pci-E "Header Cards" for USB 3.1 ports, wireless cards, and several several SSDs (of various brands).

You just choose a "fat" distro, which has a big selection of Kernel Modules already built in - and the drivers (Kernel Modules) are already there, waiting to be used.
I look at the "drivers" mini-discs which come with thee add-on cards and say "hmmm, this scheme is SO PRIMITIVE, who needs that stuff anymore?" I toss 'em in the trash and then remember - Windows and Apple people still "need" those magical Driver Disks. Sad.

Most of my computers run OpenSUSE. The only reason I still use Windows at all is my dang QuickBooks.

 

[kmossman]

Why change? 10 is a bigger pig and offers little in the way of better/new features. The constant updates are a BIG pain. Why can't MS - after some 25 years - produce a decent GUI OS??????

 

[Sir Sparkles]

It's because Windows 7 was the last good iteration of the OS. From 8 on they stuffed their tablet OS into their desktop OS and now the whole mess is just a bloated piece of garbage. My Windows laptop will remain on W7 until it dies. After that, Linux or nothing.

Windows 8 should have remained a tablet OS, but mistakes were made. Windows 10 has been great, and overall performance has been better than Windows 7. We all know that every other OS that Microsoft makes is a good one. WinXP (Awesome), Windows Vist (Trash), Windows 7 (Awesome), Windows 8 (Trash), and Windows 10 (Awesome).

Actually Win 8.1 is a very good operating system. Sure you need Classic Shell to get around the horrible Metro interface, but once that is done it's all go. More stable and secure than 7 even.

 

[lazer]

Ive used Millennium, Vista and 8. Personally I didn't have issues with them, however I wasn't big into computers when I had Millennium. Just something I had got at that time. With Vista, I knew computers, wanted to try the new OS. IMO once the service pack come out, it fixed a lot of issues for people. I cannot recall ever having any major issues with it. I know many called it a resource hog but after it's first year, a lot of things did get fixed.
Windows 8 was hated by most, 8.1 fixed a lot and some people think it's the best version. I don't agree, I think 10 is better imo.
I agree that 10 has better performance than 7.

To the people who don't trust Windows 10, you do realize the same people made XP and 7. So you trust those but not 10. It's all the same crap just wrapped differently.
Also if you truly feel that way, do what Cal and some others will do, run to Linux. But we all know that wont be working for most. So we will all be seeing all these 10 haters come to 10 sooner or later. Just a matter of time.

XP and win7 were the best the M$ made, the other OS's were not as good or were pure crap. I had win8 and had to remove it and put win7 on in order to continue using my purchased programs that I needed for work.
MS is basically a selling company, not a tech company....

 

[Mugsy]

I refer to "Windows 10" as "The Windows 10 Virus" whenever someone reports problems to me after "upgrading" from 7.

Win10 is an expensive "Spam delivery device" that MS charges you to inflict upon yourself. And near daily, we read reports of the latest buggy update creating headaches for users.

No matter how you set Win10's updates, it's a *horrible* bandwidth hog, *constantly* performing some online background task (OS, patches, Live Tiles, whatever) that slows anything Internet related (typically browsing) to a crawl.

I'm a Win7 user but have been the occasional Ubuntu/Linux user for over a decade preparing for the day when I won't be able to upgrade my cpu/hardware because Win7 support totally dries up. At that point, Linux will become my primary OS (with Win10 on a tiny boot partition for those rare times I require it.)

But as long as 64bit Win7 is faster and less of a bandwidth/resource hog, I won't be abandoning it any time soon.

 

[LFEdder]

Elementary OS is my choice, Ubuntu based, highly recommended.

Good Choice. I started out with Mint a few years ago. Since then I've moved towards Debian, and now Q4 OS (based on Debian 9.) Ubuntu and Mint are also based on Debian. Is it just me, or does anyone else see a pattern here?

 

[LFEdder]

XP and win7 were the best the M$ made, the other OS's were not as good or were pure crap. I had win8 and had to remove it and put win7 on in order to continue using my purchased programs that I needed for work.
MS is basically a selling company, not a tech company....

Nobody liked Vista, or 8. I tried Millennium edition for about 12 hours. I took the install CD out to the barn, stomped on it, then lit it on fire. I was that happy with it.

 

[LFEdder]

Just for the Hell of it, I downloaded the Win 10 image, burned it on a DVD, then tried three times to install it on an empty drive. It said We can't find a partition on that drive...and some other gobbltygook. I gave my desktop on a pat on the front panel and thanked it for making a shambles of the installation.