[ksbakan]

Been using win7 since forever. Win10 is such a huge step back that I just install win7 even on new PCs. Even hidipi works almost as well on win7. Probably the only thing I miss that I care about is hdr and ble.

The fact that ms wants you to use win10 so badly is a big hint that it's full of antifeatures.

[cpach]

IMHO that’s not such a great solution now that it’s only two weeks left until Windows 7 reaches end of life.

[gustavorg]

Can you please, because I'm terrified, 2-3 reasons why win7 and no windows 10? I need to make a decision soon (1 week or sooner)

[zamadatix]

Windows 7 goes end of life in 2 weeks. Unless you're using an old computer your hardware (e.g. CPU) is probably not supported, even if it does run it won't run properly. With EoL approaching Nvidia/AMD will stop publishing driver updates and new GPUs won't be hardware accelerated. The security model in Windows 10 is as big a jump as XP -> 7 was. It often takes manually loading additional drivers to even get the installer to recognize your disks/hardware.

[foe5424]

> Windows 7 goes end of life in 2 weeks.

No it doesn't, for two reasons.

Chromium Edge will support windows 7, ironically the release date it's just one day after Win7 supposedly goes eol. and of course Windows 7 ESU support will end in 2023.

[zamadatix]

And they released a patch for CVE-2019-0708 on Windows 2000, that doesn't mean Windows 2000 isn't EoL as of 2019 it means a one off decision was made.

ESU is for businesses not end users and requires professional or higher.

[wvenable]

Windows 10 is vastly superior to 7 with just a few UI tweaks. It's also supported. Performance is on par or better. If you looked my desktop, you'd be hard pressed to tell it's Win10.