[metaPushkin]

Since hardware prices have skyrocketed, it is very important to run software on low-end hardware and use a suitable operating system, such as Windows 7, whose support, amusingly, has been dropped by nearly every project recently. Backporting software to Windows 7 is something we must do, for our freedom and our wallets.

[hexagonwin]

vxkex works really well, give it a try

[FatCat1979]

Literally just use linux. if you're fed dogshit, don't go back to dog vomit, use an actual operating system like an actual adult.

Going back to win7 is just a neurological pathogen level of stockholm syndrome. give your head a shake.

[metaPushkin]

Modern Linux is bad, nothing works completely, and on top of that, fragmentation between X and Wayland makes it worse. I just want to use my favorite software on a convenient operating system that doesn't eat up a lot of resources. And yes, that’s Windows 7. Just give me back the ability to use Steam or SourceTree and stop forcing bloatware like Windows 10 or Windows 11 on me.

[johnisgood]

> nothing works completely

Such as? Everything has been working for me the past >20 years.

As for X vs. Wayland: you do not have to care about it. Just install a distro with X.

Steam works on Linux, and lots of games run under Linux now thanks to Proton.

[metaPushkin]

I have 8Gb RAM and HDD. Windows 7 works perfectly, windows 10 work acceptable. Linux bad work: horrible performance browser and IDE especially on distr with snap (browser performance near zero). On linux desktop huge problem with shortcuts. I don't know what the DE developers are doing, but I've never been able to get the key combinations I need and find convenient to work without conflicts with the system ones. Or it's just impossible to set them.

[niij]

Starting with the very basics: hibernation & track pads.