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why would I play it?
It is weird to still be on Windows 7.
Like why not switch to 8.1 or 10?
i had to make the switch to 10 last year so i could play mhr
the thing i regret the most about it is losing my +10k games played 61% winrate windows 7 solitaire
>is losing my +10k games played 61% winrate windows 7 solitaire
Damn, probably could have kept it too by copying appdata folder and the exe over into windows 10. It does just work.
>new = better
nothing i could do in 10 that i couldnt in 7, faster, until the software I use for work removed 7 support (and still works in 7 but the updater/installer code forces the issue)
the usual argument for updating:
>but muh security
7 was around for over a decade. If it wasnt locked down tighter than Fort Knox it's either incompetence or sabotage, and there's no reason either won't apply to 10 or 11
>7 was around for over a decade. If it wasnt locked down tighter than Fort Knox it's either incompetence or sabotage, and there's no reason either won't apply to 10 or 11
moron take, you've clearly no idea how complex an OS is. New security exploits which apply retroactively to old stuff are found all the time and it's expected behavior, the difference is whether they are patched before they're out in the wild or not.
akshually since the saturation of broadband, most remote attack vulnerabilities are automatically filtered at the gateway by NAT. even with a completely unsecured OS it's extremely difficult for exploits to succeed without user cooperation, as in the following:
>fricking up your gateway config
>visiting malicious sites with an unsecure browser. stick to LTS versions, do not use the regular update channel because all browsers use rapid release cycles meaning little testing of new features, same for windows itself if you're a 10/11 cuck
>downloading and running untrusted executables
legitimately un-preventable remote attacks have not been seen for 20 years (blaster worm happened when many people were still on dialup). all the "critical" update bulletins since then either require you to be receiving unsolicited requests (i.e. running server software), or the issue starts with
>1. Install malware
as long as your internet service uses a gateway, you aren't running a server, and you aren't a fricking moron, your PC is quite safe by default, even with known vulnerabilities and known attacks in the wild.
and btw, for everyone who says that obscurity doesn't work, blaster was actually reverse engineered from a preemptive security patch. forcing disclosure of the "old" vulnerability directly converted vulnerable PCs into actual victims. they don't like to tell you that the biggest computer security problem in history was caused by the disclosure mentality that is prevalent among security researchers. and by "security researchers" we mean people who make their living by selling software that protects against problems that they spend their working hours inventing and eventually disclose them into the wild to ensure that there is a need for their product.
Security is just another word for restricting freedom
>nothing i could do in 10 that i couldnt in 7
Well, now there is
when did they stop shipping with space cadet pinball? that was when Microsoft truly died
XP was the last (I think the only?) that had Pinball! 3D. By Win7 most of the games got changed.
I liked the classic UI in windows 7.
It didn't use any GPU, more stable and I had better frametime and less input lags in my games compared to the aero shit that's forced enabled in w8-10
I did switch to 10 but if I wasn't forced to by various games and programs all deciding to stop supporting 7 I'd still be there. It just got too much of a hassle not to switch.
10 is just generally too consumer unfriendly and with too much bloatware for me to voluntarily choose it over 7.
Window 10 right now is fine but the bloatware fricking sucks, you can get rid of it easily but it's not something we as consumers shouldn't be doing that. Window 11 is even worse to the point that now a Microsoft account is mandatory (using CMD still works tho)
>Window 10 right now is fine but the bloatware fricking sucks
If it was only bloatware....
https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/09/07/windows-10-defender-flags-hosts-file-telemetry-blocking/
people are lazy and too stupid to rip all of the Spyware garbage out of 10
is it even possible, is there some tutorial for morons? I am on 8 but it seems I will have to move to 10.
>I'm on 8
Just why. Feel free to look up w10 privacy. I don't think it removes everything but at least a lot of the bloatware.
>Spyware garbage
not in prison yet
Are you implying 7 isn't botnet either? If you really cared you'd be on Linux.
If windows 7 was botnet they wouldn't be trying so hard to convince everyone to move away from it.
they are convincing people to move away form it because the support has ended years ago and they obviously want people to be on the newest windows that they can better monetize. They definitely have their ulterior, scummy motives, but it sure as hell isn't because windows 7 is some fricking impenetrable bastion of privacy.
If they want to monetize it so much why are they giving it for free?
It's not
>full of shit and no evidence the jpg
wow you sure showed everyone
youre free to test it yourself for maximum proof that can't be tampered with.
You wont. Because you don't give a shit, you just want to parrot microsoft windows 10 propaganda.
does it ever occur to you idiots that Microsoft is subject to laws? They don't send your data to "various places", that is illegal. Also on that note, if Microsoft was indeed such an evil and nefarious company that it blatantly ignores EU and American privacy laws, what makes you think that they can't do this on Windows 7? I know you claim they DON'T do it, but what makes you believe that they COULDN'T do it if they really wanted to?
>They don't send your data to "various places", that is illegal.
give me an example and factual evidence of what data specifically Microsoft collects and then sends to third parties that shouldn't have said data.
>give me an example and factual evidence of what data specifically Microsoft collects and then sends to third parties that shouldn't have said data.
I accept your concession.
If they could do it, why don't they do it?
They do it with W10 constantly so why not with W7?
Probably because hardly anyone uses Win 7 anymore, so it's not worth the effort. But why do you think they couldn't do it? They own the source code of Win 7, they run the servers, they can stealth install anything they want on your windows system as long as you access the internet.
>Probably because hardly anyone uses Win 7 anymore, so it's not worth the effort.
Bingo. Also many modern features and systems that are required for a lot of newer software to function properly cant just be inserted into old code. You have to rewrite VAST sections to inject them and its not something you can expect someone to do. It is LESS work to make a whole new version every once in a while than keep a single one updated forever.
Microsoft is getting fricked in the ass by the IRS because they reported all of their profits from the USA as if they were made in Puerto Rico so they paid 0 fed taxes on those profits. Megacorps give 0 shits about the law, they have frick you money and most of these infringements lead to fines that are at worse a couple of millions. Microsoft makes millions in a fraction of a second.
>They don't send your data to "various places", that is illegal.
somebody get this newborn off the internet.
nobody has proven that post wrong yet though. Just reaction images and "lmao you stupid". If Microsoft was so blatantly involved in illegally trafficking private user data, surely there would be some news articles written about this, some lawsuits etc? It's all one giant conspiracy and only you and your fellow schizos somehow know about it despite a shred of evidence?
>surely there would be some news articles written about this
every new reaction image you post without a single counter argument makes you look even more stupid, you realize that, right? The fact of the matter is that you have zero evidence to support your claims.
>bro show me one heckin New York times dateline 20/20 snopes article that sells themselves out
I think I hear rebbit calling for you, bro
>surely there would be some news articles written about this
kek
oh boy...
>you got any proof at all for that claim?
>No, but I have a folder full of funny reaction images
>prove to me that laws don't stop criminals from doing criminal things
>thats ridiculous anon dont you know how the real world works?
>no proof then huh, I guess I am proven right then, laws to make it impossible to be a criminal
the child of a newborn baby, so naive.
multi billion $ mega corporations don't usually commit petty crimes, you might have watched too many Disney movies or something. They are no doubt corrupt as frick, but they are operating within the law, and if need be, they pay lobbyists to try and change the law in their favor.
>petty crimes
>information theft
>petty crime
Black person are you pretending to be moronic or genuinely got dropped when you were a kid? information is what makes the world function to begin with, your pornhub browsing history is more valuable than your skin
>what do you mean they steal my data that's illegal I acconsented and decided to use their software it was literally a gift they gave billions of people that's why they did it am I right fellow citizens
I know americans are dumb but, holy shit dude
>They don't send your data to "various places", that is illegal
HAAH WAAW
I wish I was a teenager again. Ignorance is bliss. Nobody tell him about PRISM or XKeyscore.
>oh no there's network traffic on my networked operating system
>but I have all the options off
Yeah just because you are sitting on a desktop doesn't mean there aren't a hundred network processes doing things.
Do you know why you internet icon doesn't have an asterisk? By golly it talked to an internet server to figure out it had internet.
Amazing.
It's all shit pinging to Microsoft you disingenuous moron. Why are you people so against people not wanting to use spyware infested bullshit?
8.1 service ends at the end of January.
>10
Why are you telling people to use a no longer supported system? Are you some sort of parasite? Don't we pay you well?
>CHANGE IS BAD I MUST DO THINGS ALWAYS THE SAME WAY AND IT MAKES ME ANXIOUS
It's a literal sperg symptom, look it up
>switch to 8.1
I'm sorry for your brain damage
Is the best solution. Switching to linux is second best.
windows 7 Chad here
never upgrading!
I just use AME/LTSC with Powershell and modded UI.
why the frick would you switch to 8.1
its worse than 7 in every way, even less games support it
8.1 is kill as well
no escape
I'm on 10 but I would still be on 7 if I had the choice because it was better. 10 is at least acceptable, which makes me nervous that 11 is going to be dogshit when I have to switch up to it.
Spics really love windows 7 for whatever reason
>8.1
Don't even meme
>Spics really love windows 7 for whatever reason
because they are poorgays that cant afford modern pc that handles 10
this but they also can't handle w11 so they try to shill against it
It's not weird. It's not weird that it's not supported either. People who are on 7 make a conscious decision to miss out on some modern vidya, it's okay, nobody owes them shit and they know it, otherwise it just doesn't make sense and it's their loss. I personally have less problems on 10 than I ever had on 7 so as long as it works I don't really give a shit about it. Life is too short to worry about menial stuff like this.
This kills the shills.
Those operating systems suck.
t. anon on Windows 10 who wishes he never had to upgrade
I simply prefer Windows 7 because it's what I grew up with. It's what I know. Soon as they came out with this shit I went right back to 7.
I love Idiocracy and watch it every so often, but I never quite made the connection until just now, seeing that picture.
I wonder if that makes me more or less of an idiot than the W8/10/11 userbase.
I'm expecting reading to be obsolete soon. Everything will be pictures on touchscreens and people will just listen to stuff they click. Reading will be phased out of the curriculum.
>Reading will be phased out of the curriculum.
already is, depending on your skin color
Speaking of poor reading skills, did you read the article? The change was made for one semester because so many kids fell behind due to covid and distance learning
I would actually prefer the idiocracy screen over the shitshow we got with 8 on launch. 95% of those fricking squares we're either totally useless clutter or literal advertisements for even MORE useless clutter. God I hate what tablets and phones did to the internet.
i would just switch to 8.1, it's just as good as seven now, i've used it for years, myself, before i upgraded to ten last year. also, why use 7 when you can just use xp? or 98, for that matter?
Only reason to upgrade is direct X, that's it.
alt+tab in 11 is good, even if you compare it to 10
I think it's weirder to be playing Valorant lol
-2/10 just reading this bait made my brain smoother
Win 7 was XP tier (fantastic)
Win 8.x is an abomination fueled by greed, worse than Vista
Win 10 is basically a re-release of 7 as an apology for 8
tbh 8.1 isn't that bad as long as you install classic shell to remove the abortion known as metro.
my biggest beef with windows at this point is they are making it increasingly difficult to opt out of their c**ty updates and other telemetry/nannying.
frick off MS, it's my computer.
>frick off MS, it's my computer.
Sure, keep telling yourself that.
Vista was good, it was just resource hungry and 7 was heavily based off it. Computers were just much faster by the time it released and vista was heavily refined by the time SP2 released.
Did you have to accept a UAC prompt to make this post?
The UAC prompts were refined in the service pacs and 7/8.1/10 still have them. They were a good idea, just poorly implemented at first.
absolutely shit take.
8.1 has both of 7 and 10 good parts without having the shit parts of 10.
>b-bb-ut my start menu!!!!11!1
stop being a grandma, I haven't used the start menu since 1999.
werent for directx i would still be on win7, windows 8 was so garbage they tried to spin it with 8.1 but it was still garbage, so they were compelled to make win10 which is basically win7 with some extra stuff from win8
>werent for directx i would still be on win7
Unironically, directx bullshit and games not properly running is what made a lot of people jumped the win7 ship. I wonder when they will kill DirX12 so people migrate to 11
Because 99% of the time, win7 just runs faster, even after extensive ameliorating/debloating 10.
I just dualboot to 10 when I need to.
Reliability and windows 7 is capable of running windows 95/98 legacy games compared to 8/8.1/10/11.
???
I play windows 95 games on my w10 all the time dude, it seems you just need to learn how to use computers
>Switched to Windows 8.
>My GPU isn't supported.
>Get a free upgrade from MS to windows 10.
>Never looked back.
>Loonix.
For almost 30 years now, you homosexuals have been saying this. Stinkfat GabeN is hardly making a dent.
what makes you shill windows this hard despite microsoft raping you every day
is it moronation or not knowing any better or sour grapes
>updates winshit at every chance
lmao botnet zombie
>You WILL make a Microsoft account
>You WILL submit your email address to get to the desktop
>You WILL send us a log of every minute you spend using your PC
>You WILL look at the Microsoft store
>You WILL use Edge
>You WILL use Bing
>You WILL send out an internet query every time you search your harddrive for e-girl hentai you fricking degenerate
>You WILL keep a log of your keystrokes and send them to us
>You WILL be flagged for the NSA
>You WILL re-organize your desktop layout to suit our needs
>You WILL install the updates
>You WILL not ask what's in the updates
>You WILL not ask for patch notes
>You WILL reboot your system when WE SAY it's time to reboot
>You WILL back up your files to OneDrive
>You WILL use our servers in Redmond as your new PC
>You WILL own nothing besides your monitor and keyboard....and like it
No
zoom zoom zoomer
>8.1
Anon...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-8-1-support-will-end-on-january-10-2023-3cfd4cde-f611-496a-8057-923fba401e93
Brah, 8.1 just died.
morons think bill gates spies on them if they upgrade
honestly idk who's dumber between them or guys like
>he's not on XP
>he's not on 2000
>he's not rockin 98SE
back in the 90's/early 200's my dad had a side gig selling low budget computers with pirated copies of 98se
>Valorant
And like that, nothing of value was lost
>If you are still on Windows idk what you are doing
fixed
Linux gaming is the future.
you've been saying this for the past 10 years
and it is still true
He's been right for the past 10 years
If it happened it wouldn't be the future anymore
did Steam Deck come with Windows installed?
I wish it did. I'm tired of games not working.
cope harder
I'll join in 2025.
>Linux
>Gaming
Pick one
https://www.protondb.com/
Gaming on Linux is getting pretty good. 80% of top 1000 games on Steam can be played native or require one minor tweak to work smoothly. Some run better than on Windows.
The only issue actually is the Anti Cheat software. Most don't support Linux so you wont play games like Rainbow Six etc.
>Gaming on Linux is getting pretty good, you just cant play online
What online-only game is worth sticking to windows?
Chivalry 2
https://www.protondb.com/app/1824220
>it works on linux now
Oh no, windows bros
>or require one minor tweak to work
Nope, not fricking buying into this. 80% is already an unacceptable low threshold, but on top of that you had to pad the numbers by adding the ones that "only need a few tweaks to work".
So what's the real number that work without jumping through hoops? 40%? 20%?
You can check on the site.
Among top 1000 games, 27% have "Platinum" ranking, meaning they run out of the box perfectly.
I just checked. 1 game out of the top 100 "just werks".
That's frickinng embarrasing.
You've read it wrong. That 1% is native, which is meaningless these days.
No, that's 1 out of the top 100 games work out of the box without requiring fixes or workarounds.
Nu gaymers are spoiled.
>Nope, not fricking buying into this. 80% is already an unacceptable low threshold, but on top of that you had to pad the numbers by adding the ones that "only need a few tweaks to work".
>So what's the real number that work without jumping through hoops? 40%? 20%?
my experience with the Steam Deck is 76% of games work with basically no tweaking, i have 1216 games on steam, a decent sample size, of the ones valve has rated as great on deck, playable or unsupported, about 76% are either playable or great on deck, so they should run on base linux no prob
of the unsupported bunch, basically everything has worked with different degrees of tweaking
so by my estimates, about 76% of steam games run on linux out of the box, about 90% or 95% run with different degrees of tweaking, and that last 10% or 5% either has some anti-cheat that specifically targets linux or the game is legitimately a b***h to get running on linux, of the latter the only examples ive seen are dark void and the original version of darksiders, and i say "seen" because i havent experienced this
I have a friend who switched to Linux (Manjaro?) last summer and the only thing on Steam he couldn't play was Hell Let Loose, since the dev didn't do some adjustment with their Easy Anticheat implenetation.
Translation: 20% of the top played games dont work, this means that obscure games have an even smaller chance to work.
Everything should work, anon. A big chunk is not enough
point is, it progresses rapidly because Valve pumps millions of dollars for the engineers working on it
>obscure games have an even smaller chance to work
Regardless of the other points in this discussion, this makes no sense. The smaller and more obscure it is the more likely it *will* work, if anything. For better or worse small and indie devs either suck off Linux or are not openly hostile to letting it work because of their already small potential user base
HAHAHAHAH 80% of top 1000 is a FRICKING DISASTER man, call me when it's 99.999% so I don't miss out on any mp release that my friends play
>Pubg, Lost Ark, Destiny 2, MW2
Oh no, I'm missing out on so much
As shit as those games are, yes, you are. In between single player games for your own enjoyment those types of games serve an important social function
Such as? I've still been able to play the following online
Deep Rock
Risk of Rain
Divinity
100% OJ
New World
WoW
OW (never playing OW2 because frick blizzard)
Elden Ring
FFXIV
The Hunter Call of the Wild
Valheim
You seem to imply that no online game works. In my experience, most work.
>most work.
The only ones that dont work are the games where the anti-cheat is fricked.
See DBFZ for example. Game works perfectly, but the epic anticheat is fricked.
The annoying thing is that Valve fixed it. All the Devs have to do is add a file to the game and tick a box.
This is not the point. It is that the mentioned games DO NOT WORK. Anything meaningful against the ACTUAL POINT?
>Linux gaming is the future.
Well it definitely isn't the present.
DOHOHOHOHO
savage
Lel
lel
I'm so happy this homosexual rots in a Romanian prison.
holy frick
I'm sure he's compiling a response for this right now
It's a catch 22 because no one uses it for gaming so it will never get any support. ;_;
linuxsisters whats the command to respond to this?
TWO MORE WEEKS BROS THOSE WINKEKS WILL KNOW OUR POWER
This year I am sure will be the year of Linux Gaming
>still cant play DBD on deck cause of EAC bullshit
suffering.
That's on the devs and Epic. But in their defense, IDK many Linux users who are willing to play the EAC titles that still don't run.
Also, what even is DBD? I'm not familiar with that one.
Ah. That one. The devs either don't want to flip a switch or are using Fornite's kernel version of EAC. The ones I play use the less-invasive/Diet EAC.
you can probably still play more games on win 7 than linux
I hate Linux so so much. I’m trying to pirate atelier sophie 2 on my deck and holy shit it’s so confusing and convoluted.
Don't get Gankerroomed. Linux fricking sucks and its a huge waste of time.
HELLO SIRS
PLEASE DO THE DUTIFUL AND SUPPORT MICROSOFT
Microdick fricking sucks too moron. I'd rather use a dogshit OS than a barely functional one.
>Microdick fricking sucks too moron
You'd know wouldn't you?
I'm not Bill Gates
Explain what exactly sucks instead of generic blanket statements.
Terminal overreliance, driver incompatibility, GUI hate boner, bad/lacking 'alternative' software (gimp for example), difficult troubleshooting etc
>terminal overreliance
Le big bad scary terminal! Everything must be menus and buttons, even functionality that is more suited to the terminal!
>driver incompatibility
Such as?
>gui hateboner
KDE, Gnome, xfce, mate, cinnamon, etc. Tons of gui environments that you can choose from. Doesn't look like a hateboner to me.
>bad/lacking 'alternative' software
GIMP is the only real example. LibreOffice > MicrosoftOffice, Davinci Resolve > Adobe Premier, Krita > Illustrator
>Difficult troubleshooting
Lmao, 90% of microshaft troubleshooting ends in reinstalling drivers or a new windows install. On Linux, you can actually fix things instead of relying on nuking your install.
>Everything must be menus and buttons, even functionality that is more suited to the terminal!
Yes
>terminal overeliance
How to chance mouse sensitivity:
Command to list all connected devides
Look through the list to see the one that looks like a mouse
Copy ID (changes every restart)
Command with mouse ID and a sensitivity matricy
>Ganker
Lmao don't confuse Ganker with valveshills friendo. Nobody on Ganker give a shit about Linux gayming.
>troonix
>gaming
Damn I didn't know you could play Valorant on Linux, since when anon?
>Linux
Go back to Ganker
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Verification not required.
Cope Steamtard
how is the gaming support? i hear gaben is doing god's work in that area, with his steamos and all that, is that true?
yes
we would be much further, much closer to freedom, if more of you homosexuals helped make Linux gaming better instead of just waiting for Gaben to do all the work.
i'm just an npc, i can't do anything for anyone.
Linux is the future of PC gaming - and it always will be.
>the game folder is named Data
>the game code expects to load things from folder called data
>this breaks a game on linux
nope
name 1
Your shitty game is built from the ground up for easy hacking on low end PC's.
Your market share is null. Your game is dull.
>Works on Windows XP 32-bit
Maybe in offline. Steam requires at least win7 to run.
>Steam requires at least win7 to run.
pretty soon they'll require at least windows 10.
They're removing the -nobrowser flag and Chromium has dropped Windows 7 support.
Steam is currently using a horribly outdated (like 2+ years old, I shit you not) build of Chromium which doesn't even work properly any more for some of the payment methods.
Next time Valve updates it, Win7 support is dead.
Eh, I'd say there is still time.
and then someone from redmond swings by valve's HQ with an offer they can't refuse
now windows 11 is required.
MS has show over the years they'll resort to any and all underhanded tactics to spur OS adoption.
>Next time Valve updates it, Win7 support is dead
Good thing Valve operates on Valve Time.
>They're removing the -nobrowser flag
No frick please no
I'm not even on 7 and I just really fricking hate the bloated garbage UI Steam has nowadays, the old native one is so much faster and more responsive
Might as well move to Playnite or something if you want a non-shitty client.
They're *also* removing the -noreactlogin flag btw.
Which means if Chromium has a melty and for whatever reason decides to black screen the web view on you, as it every so often seems to do to some peeps, then you can no longer log in.
I want to die.
Comment here https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/3710433479207750727/
If you are still playing Valorant idk what you are doing
>installing any spyware infestes israelitefest that is Windows past 7
frick off and take your walmart overwatch with you
I have windows 10 but if you still have windows 7, then your reasons for staying on 7 are way more important than fricking valelrant. Fricking lol.
Who ever fricking plays this game? i never hear about it outside of shilling threads on Ganker.
Looks like millions play it.
>phone analogy
>when Windows 10 is just 1 buck
Dont you have 1 buck?
Windows 10 is free anon. Always has been. If you don't know how to get it free you are too dumb to be allowed to post here.
Do you guys not have money?
>Who ever fricking plays this game? i never hear about it outside of shilling threads on Ganker.
It's a Riot game.
Those pretty much exclusively get played by thirdworlders. Because they are free (you are the product)
Same with LoL really. Nobody here gives a shit about Asshomosexuals anymore but the game is still super popular in shitholes like Brazil, Indonesia or Russia. All low income countries where people either can't even buy good games or where the pennies you make a week are actually needed for well - living .
valorant is majorly played in north america and europe and lol is majorly played in south korea
When will you morons realize it's not because it's not on Ganker or /vg/ that it isn't popular? Valorant is one of the biggest games at the moment.
If you take this site seriously you'll think that playing coomer gacha games is actually common
>he actually buys into twitch streamer astroturfing
ahhhhahahahaha keep slurping your slop, lil guy
bless your heart
No joke, that other person who replied to you is right, you are a massive idiot if you believe Valorant is topping shit.
Real
>Who ever fricking plays this game?
Mix of a few normalgays, chinks, eastern europeans/ruskies that got filtered by CSGO, and surprisingly A LOT of women.
So yeah, it's a shit game just as the game it copied, CSGO.
>do you guys not have phones?
>Stay on 7 because of the evil spyware
>Also install Valorant
Anyone complaining about this shit just proves that most people still on 7 is moronic.
>chink cs goverwatch
not gona upgrade in my lifetime, not even for riftbreaker. its just not worth it to infest my pc with win10 for a bit fun
>I would rather use old telemetry infested security nightmare rather than new telemetry infested maintained OS
You are not doing yourself any favor if you believe you are fighting some sort of war against Microsoft spywares. If anything you are being left behind both by whoever works on your security updates and the rest of the industry
>inb4 it's fine I only play OG doom anyway
>spyware hurr durr
its plain shit, a inferior version made for smartphone users without a brain
>security updates
aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHA
>If anything you are being left behind both by whoever works on your security updates
"security updates" has got to be the redditest meme of all time
it always reminds me of how microsoft forced all mojang accounts to migrate to microsoft for "security reasons" only to later make paid modding and ban wrongspeak which is exactly what schizos knew was the real reason.
Obviously any company will not do anything for security reasons, its not some deep conspiracy that every single one is basically only there to make a profit, even the non-profit ones
>security nightmare
No one cares about what a third worlder nobody like me does on their pc.
we cant stop winning directx12 chads
You can get Windows keys for like $1. There's no excuse.
you can get it for like $0 too
>dealing with some dodgy keygen or unlocker or whatever the frick rather than just giving some Eastern European $1 for his IRL software raids
with some dodgy keygen or unlocker or whatever the frick
you use the proper ISOs that microsoft release and then use a safe github unlocker which can even give you a permanent license on your machine even if you reinstall the OS
>Eastern European
>not dodgy as frick
It's like you never played GTA4.
I literally found an open source windows activator script on github that doesnt require you to disable any shit in firewalls, took me 5 minutes searching through piracy forums/plebbit
You are a dumbass if you cant pirate windows
been taking the free pill for 20 years without a single issue
my advice is don't be moronic
if you don't know how to pirate windows, you're a sped among speds and you have no right to claim superiority over anyone.
no jamal, we know you don't have the "activate windows" watermark on purpose because it's ironically funny, we know it's because you're too stupid to pirate windows.
They aren't paying me enough
I am okay with SteamOS on my Deck, does everything I need, plays all games I give a shit about. I'll switch to Linux when building a new PC.
Can't just say it isn't playable on windowd 7 anymore they just have to leave a snarky homosexual comment as well
I'd ask why are you playing Valorant? Other games don't have annoying things you have to install to play it.
Would you guys also ask why anyone would use an old car instead of getting a new one? What causes so much seethe over a persons choice of OS
I'm still gonna dedicate some hard drive space to Windows 7 so I can still dual boot to it and casually play old games. Kind of like what is saying, what the hell is up with people screaming and shitting themselves over people who like using different OS's? It's especially noticeable with Windows 7 for some reason.
Everyone suddenly becomes a fricking tech security expert when you mention you use Windows 7.
>hey guys does this game work in windows 7?
>hurr security hurr old os hurr windows 10 hurr you want to play on xp hurrr
Every fricking time and not a single person will say yes or no
It's unnatural
That probably won't be entirely possible if you decide to update your hardware. Peripheral ports in modern AMD mobos at least uses an architecture that isn't backwards compatible with Windows 7. While you might still be able to boot into the OS, your keyboard and mouse will likely not work on it. You're better off setting up a virtual machine if you want to play old games.
NPC programing, they have been fed and programmed to think a certain way and thus every time win 7 is mentioned their programing kicks in and they spit out the script
>what the hell is up with people screaming and shitting themselves over people who like using different OS's?
Literally never happens
Go check any thread "Does this run on Windows 7" and such on Steam forums. My favorite is the Stubbs one.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/7800/discussions/0/5312531598984937656/
>screaming and shitting
>most just laughing at OP
if you're enough of a troon to use 7 just switch to loonix instead
What runs on Win 7 that doesn't run on Win 10?
I can understand if you want a Win XP install for old games, since XP has some stuff that might let it run Win 95 games better... but then you probably into driver issues anyway.
What GPU and CPU do you have and can you still install stuff like chipset drivers for them on Win 7?
It can work with an updated Win 7 installation on newer shit.
Is this in reply to me asking about GPU, CPU and chipset drivers?
Do nvidia CP or AMD's Adrenalin still work too? What's your GPU?
I use a 3060 Ti and the Nvidia control panel AND geforce experience (not that you have to use it) are both functional.
If you try to install geforce experience by itself, it won't work on Windows 7. However, it works when you install it through the most recent security update for the 3060 Ti on Windows 7.
I'm currently on the Windows 10 partition so I had to go digging through a folder to find this picture.
strangely enough geforce experience stopped working for me in feb last year, then randomly an update in may made it work again
Nice analogy. Older cars are easier to self-maintain, easier to fix and troubleshoot, and perform relatively well compared to newer cars for average daily drives. Only if you try to do shit you wouldn't normally do (rally, use a coupe to pull a semi-trailer, just about anything on Top Gear) do you run into issues.
I totally agree, just want to clarify I think old vehicles are leagues better then any modern wank
Older cars don't come with dlcs.
All new cars are electric, the answer should be obvious
Isn't it possible to have more than 1 PC?
Couldn't you have a PC you use only for gaming and not for browsing or work function?
>HAHA OWNED!!! FRICK GAMERS AM I RIGHT??
Companies will never learn.
Neither will Sessler apparently
im currently on windows 10
should I upgrade to 11?? its free
I reluctantly upgraded to it 2 months ago and it's so similar to 10 that you'll get used to it in less than a day.
That being said, it also brings next to nothing new at the table and still has some very minor annoyances, like having the volume mixer relegated to settings.
new games suck
everything I play works on W7
>valorant
who?
what is a valorant?
>you can no longer play Riot's CSGO clone with Chinese ring0 anticheat that can't even block AHK scripts
Damn, how will I even survive without it?
he's right
switch to linux
If you are playing Valorant idk what you are doing.
i get not supporting certain old OS but why stop it being installed on those systems?
Its not like it'll get an update it'll get will make the game unplayable for other or allowe cheating
>game launches
>troonix users claim it works just fine
meanwhile, in reality
>spent 2 hours applying fixes
>graphical issues
>stuttering
>audio issues
>performance issues
>no VRR
>alt-tab works 20% of the time
Thinking people can get filtered by linux says more about you.
Oh no. I can no longer play a game I didn't play and never would play.
boomertrannies BTFO
I'm getting a new pc built (old build was a 1080Ti).It has both TPM 2.0 and Windows 11. I'm hoping pic rel will help
>January 11
Tbf, they're officially no longer forced to keep supporting W7, morally speaking. Extended security support for W7 is finished, so we've reached the point in which no one should actually be using the system anymore, just like no one should be using my beloved Windows XP.
You WILL install Windows 11.
You WILL download the updates.
You WILL give us your data.
>giving data to government GOOD and REDPILLED!!
>giving data to microsoft bad and cringe waaaah!!!
Dumb fricking ape giving data to microsoft IS giving it to the government. Why the frick do you think they collect it, for ad revenue? No its because the FBI pays them to since the alphabets can't legally collect it themselves
>No its because the FBI pays them to since the alphabets can't legally collect it themselves
You have no fricking clue what you're talking about. Not only can they do it themselves, they do. The real issue is using what they gather to charge anyone because the moment a trial goes to court where the FBI obtained the evidence under something like the Patriot Act there is a high chance it ends up before the Supreme Court and gets ruled unconstitutional and the case thrown out. It's actually amazing how wrong you are. Apple used to unlock criminals iphones for teh FBI but they stopped doing it in part because the FBI basically made them foot the entire cost. Literally the exact opposite of the FBI paying this tech companies. Holy shit you scary mix of uniformed, confident and paranoid.
Power goy
I'm not american so I don't fear either.
wait, how was Valorant ever playable on Win 7? I thought it had an anti cheat that required secure boot and TPM 2.0?
it didn't inherently require TPM but if you used windows 11 it enforced that you met its system requirements, for some reason.
wtf bros why don't new games support my 14 year old OS wtf why are the globalists to evil?!?
Oh look another schizo thread full of morons defending their stupid ass decision to not install an OS that isnt and outdated piece of shit while crying about getting support dropped. I guess microsoft should still be writing patches for windows 3.1 or some shit and continue to do so forever.
valowhat?
Valorant
Wait, there's an upgrade for Windows ME?
It is time once again to pretend to psychotically cling to Win7 for (you)s
don't care still using windows 7
Microshit: "N-not enough people use windows 7 for us to care about long term support"
Also Microshit: "P-PLEASE UPGRADEEEEE, S-STOP USING 7"
nobody is using 7 anymore, Microsoft is now begging people to switch from 10 to 11. They have mostly forgotten win 7 still exists.
From last month's Steam hardware survey:
Windows 10 64 bit
65.42%
-0.18%
Windows 11 64 bit
28.42%
+0.44%
Windows 7 64 bit
1.66%
-0.22%
OSX
2.48%
Windows 7 has officially fallen under MacOS in terms of userbase on Steam.
*From last month's Steam optional hardware survey
do you know how statistics work you moronic monkey
>"upgrade to 11, goy!"
>"not with THAT hardware, silly!"
win11 is the new ME/Vista/8
Did it every occur to you that people that are more privacy oriented and use win 7 over 10, would you know... not participate int he survey that gathers SHITloads of data about your pc and the programs you use?
No? never, never occurred to you? moron.
this
the dumbasses who install later versions of windows are exactly the kind of moron that participates in steam surveys
Like I wouldn't mind giving them my CPU, GPU, RAM, monitor resolution and operating system.
But they pull so much more than that, they pull literally every applicaiton used on the pc and bunch of more data its so fricking invasive it's not even funny.
So much for "optional" survey. When the only option is either give them literally everything or give them literally nothing.
Yet all the zoomers and morons will naturally not think about any of this and just look at the statistics and use it as an argument for anything.
Anyway this is the reason microshills seethe so much about win 7 because plenty of people use it.
Do you guys not know how statistics work? You could make the same argument that zoomers who already upgraded to 11 don't have the attention span to bother taking surveys. Obviously it's not 100% accurate, but it's still in the general ballpark with a margin of error of maybe 1-2%.
surveys are automatic anon youre not actually filling them out
If you actually give a shit about security, why would you ever use a version of Windows from beyond 2000?
Yeah Windows 98 is known for being impenetrable after all.
My interest is a wide variety of games from 1995 to current year. But also I don't want to be utterly raped by microsoft.
Currently a good solution for me is win7. Maybe in a decade I'l switch to linux.
At no point does win10 seem like a good option.
Yes, I know win 7 is not perfect, but it's a happy balance for me right now and works 99.9% of the games and scenarios.
>do you have a single yahoo news article to back that up?
>mfw I'm in the 1.66%
Microsoft wants you to upgrade because they don't want to deal with another wanacry shitstorm where they had to release security patches to ancient versions of windows that were no longer supported. It's cheaper to let people upgrade for free and drop the support, then to support both versions.
starcraft still works on windows 7 and so does every game worth playing.
For me it's 11
Windows 11 is literally perfect
why are you paedophile?
Why are you European? (just realized these are both synonyms)
>so desperate they need to use a e-girl
thanks, ill save these images and continue to look at them on windows 7
non-canon
i refuse to upgrade because windows 10 offends my sense of aesthetics
Not a big loss, I don't think anyone within Valorant's target demographic is old enough to have used Windows 7.
>this thread
You fricking idiot Linux shills need to remember the importance of gatekeeping. Stop trying to get moron normies to use Linux. It's working great right now, why the frick would you want everyone on it? Leave it alone you fricking idiots.
This
I can play whatever i want on my Linux distro - No spyware - no bullshit. Can't get better than this.
Inviting the normalgays and therefore commercial interest would only make the experience worse. Let things stay the way they are. You pajeets can keep using Windows 10/11 like the sheep that you are while i enjoy my freedoms in peace.
Getting popular never made anything better
>implying
Linux is full of trannies and crazy people, it can't possibly become worse than it is.
>it can't possibly become worse than it is.
Literally look at anything that becomes infested with normalgays then try saying this statement to yourself again. Just look at this shithole of an imageboard as an example.
People who stick to windows 7 don't actually use their PC for anything. They just come here and shitpost.
Is elden ring like the only game that matters to Ganker
Whatever game can create the most contrarianism on Ganker becomes the top dog.
Slop game requires a slop OS
Also, Valorant will drop W10 eventually too
Is Linux OS any good?
just install custom w10 rips with literally everything including windows disabled through registry hacks
I did and never, not even in windows 7, have I ever seen true 0% CPU usage in idle. no HDD usage, low RAM usage, better numbers than I had on my old w7
Those aren't that easy to come by and it often looks seriously dubious.
Most I've seen are open source github modifications. I used atlas OS and the CPU hangs on 0% at idle, I've never seen any windows manage that
installation and usage can be difficult for brainlets considering literally EVERYTHING is disabled through registry and you need specific .reg files to enable these back, including hardware acceleration, windows update itself and everything else you need
>including windows update
Black folk
For me - It's openSUSE Tumbleweed
Their rootkit probably doesnt work anymore on 7 now.
>upgrades from DX9 2 days ago in your path
not my problem mike
Watching it on youtube isn't playing it, Ryan
No point if you can only play mainstream normalgay garbage on Steam™. If I need 200 hours of troubleshooting everytime I want to play an eroge in japanese, there is no point.
Eroge are actually easier to run on Linux because Linux doesn't have the region locale bullshit that Windows has
No need to install anything. Just run the shit through wine and play. The only brainlet filter is old RPG Maker games but those also require troubleshooting on Windows as well. It's still easier on Linux
>Just run the shit through wine
>install wine
>click on exe and make it run through wine by default
>literally the same experience as on Windows
Wow. How difficult.
Meanwhile someone on Windows 10 will tell you to install VirtualBox and download a Windows 7 iso cause Windows 10 lacks the necessary drivers to run that 20 year old ero-novel
on exe and make it run through wine by default
ah yes, what about WineHacks and WineTricks?
>Windows 10 lacks the necessary drivers to run that 20 year old ero-novel
I don't know that feel, Bible Black runs like a dream
>mfw someone on /jp/ asks "uhh how do I run this on linux"
NO DO NOT REDEEM W7 DO THE NEEDFUL W10 SIRS
>upgrade to windows 10 years ago but still dual boot windows 7 for older games
>buy a new cpu/motherboard
>drivers not compatible with windows 7, resolution is all fricked up
Frick..........
This is where i took the Linux pill.
If you even go as far as paying hardware manufacturers to frick over optional Windows 7 installs you can go frick yourself.
You wanna push people to Windows 10? Fine.
But don't force me to do it by paying off the people who make the hardware that i need.
Why can't MS convince people to use Windows 10/11 by making the OS actually G-O-O-D. Why do they have to sabotage all alternatives instead.
Look
I'm basically just gonna not get Windows 10
I know..... UGH I know..... I'm sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's just that I'm not getting it is all
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA
I'm sure all 5 people using Windows 7 will be sad to hear that.
already covered this, dumbass look here
Something tells me people who are STILL on Win7 don't really care about popular video games so this won't affect a single person in the world.
i already pirated elden ring on windows, what difference does it make?
There is literally no reason not to use windows 10
Hmmm.... there's something a little off about this photo, but I can't quite put my nose on it
you can disable that
>you can disable that
i hear this "counter-argument" from you shills quite a lot, but how about i use an OS that doesn't have globohomosexual propaganda built-in, in the first place?
It's out of date garbage compared to 11.
11 september.
>muh basedware
People who were still using xp years after 7 came out said the same exact thing and they all had to switch to 7 eventually.
OH NO!!! NOT VALORAN!!! MOM! IT ISN'T FAIRE!!
>W7 doesn't support DX12
>need to run games through a Vulkan emulator to play
My only complaint. Everything else is fine.
More people use windows 7 than play valorant
Yeah there's no cutscenes in this story based game, there's audio issues, heavy stuttering in the menu and screen tearing, you need to frick with this this and this prefix for 45 minutes before the launcher even starts but once you deal with all of that, it's not a big deal, just watch the cutscenes on youtube, game runs perfectly out the box
I upgraded to windows 11 a few days ago because steam wouldn't launch certain old games and I had to manually open them from their executable which was getting annoying, I don't know what files windows 10 is missing but ever since I switched every game works perfectly now
Now you understand the sheer moronic lies spouted on this board about operating systems
I love watching oldgay contrarians get forced to update to keep playing new games.
>Implying I play new games.
Lol.
no oldgay is buying new games
OH HOW CAN I MISS OUT ON THAT!!!! Microsoft you win I will now install your OS!
Have fun not playing Armored Core 6 lmao.
It will run on LInux just fine like most new games without specifically windows requiring anticheat.
there is no way Ganker doesn't have the lowest average age of all the boards. what a fricking dogshit thread
>are you still using win7, you creep?! Haha, what are you, a weirdo? can you even open your insta with that? what? you don't have one?! man, you're buggin'
>"i refuse to move to windows 10 because it's spyware!"
>also wants to play a game that forcibly installs spyware
sorry, not upgrading
Hwhat in the hell is Texas Hunting?
it's where you find people still using charcoal and educate them on the value that propane, and propane accessories bring to the table.
frick, I just remembered there was a MIB game.
Is there any reason not to move to Win 11 if you're already on 10?
I'm on 7 and had to upgrade my gpu a few months ago because the old one broke, I had the opportunity to upgrade then but I'd also need to get a new SSD and just couldn't be bothered. Was considering upgrading to 10 at some point by next year but now they're pushing 11 I'd have to go through this shit again so I might just stop with PCs altogether
>We're as far from the release of Windows 7 as it was from 95
Is Linux gaming just a meme or something cause I really can't take those people seriously
Meme, it's just an OS designed to be run inside a VM serving microservices and shitty wordpress site.
Valve had the hindsight to know this shit was coming so they started investing in Proton a few years ago. At this point a fair amount of games work well on Linux and there is even a site for it:
https://www.protondb.com/
However, if you want to play some obscure titles or some obscure consoles on emulators that don't have Linux support, you might be better off setting up a Windows VM.
>Emulate while you emulate
How far can the emulation rabbit hole go? How many layers?
Enjoy your 20fps emulation. Just dual boot and save yourself a hassle
>b-b-but Graphics card pass-through
not worth it
It was a meme a few years ago. Then you had to make a deliberate decision "I like Linux more than I like having all games readily available". You still had stuff to play, it was just limited, unless you dual-booted.
Now it's actually good for the most part, there was a genuine breakthrough, but people are working on years-old knowledge because they tried to install Linux once in 2010 and things didn't work immediately then.
You still might run into issues occasionally or need to tweak things, but this is more of an exception than a rule nowadays. 100% compatibility is probably impossible because every game does things like rendering in its own uniquely wrong way, and there are always going to be Japanese games that seem to hit the exact sequence of obscure Windows bugs that cancel each other out, but most stuff just works out of the box, and if you spend like an hour installing Proton GE to sidestep video code patent shit and then half an hour looking through ProtonDB advice if something doesn't immediately work, you can probably play your entire library. So it might be a bit of a compromise still but a really small one by this point.
>and there are always going to be Japanese games that seem to hit the exact sequence of obscure Windows bugs
Can't you just install XP VM for those?
I guess so. I was talking from "use purely Linux" standpoint.
Though graphics in VM are pretty slow unless you do GPU passthrough, and it will obviously consume some resources to run. If you do GPU passthrough, I think you can play whatever, but I never tried.
Might not matter for XP-era games, though, but it probably depends.
>switch to win 10
>1 month later the whole thing got corrupted and I had to reinstall
what did I got myself into?
>Oy vey we want to spy on you even more to sell the information to the chinese government
>Huh why are you still using that outdated operating system goyim?
Thank god I don't even use windows in the first place, they can go frick themselves with their chinkoid spyware rootkits.
>11 years later on Ganker
>"windows 11 bros..."
>"no i won't update my windows 11!"
>300 posts in
>zero mentions of Enterprise LTSC
heh
LTSC is even more moronic than linux.
Why is that?
I'm building a computer and I'm gonna use that OS, any advice/warnings?
advice: don't
warning: be careful not to do it
Why though? I've heard people say LTSC is fricked up but nobody explains how or why.
I switched to 10 Education because LTSC doesn't support the Xbox series X controller over Bluetooth
Doesn't Steam support it tho in Big Picture Mode?
Weird because I use LTSC and I can connect my Xbox controller fine via Bluetooth. Are you sure it wasn't a human error?
LTSC is nice, it comes with a lot of the bloat and spyware shit already removed by default. No real advice or warnings to give, it's just a preference of an OS to use based off what you desire.
>advice
install it and don't look back, it's the most sane OS of the last 15 years or so
Lmao I love how israelily smug he had to be by saying that last line, like hes trying to gaslight everyone into switching over. Reminds me of the genteels saying "Dude idk why you haven't had 5 booster shots yet.... >_>". Peak NPC goy behavior.
pc gaming is a real joke at this point
yeah, took us 15 years to caught up with the console clowns.
Now entire gaming is dead
>game's cutscenes aren't working with valve's proton
use proton-ge instead
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
>yeah use this GE
>eh nevermind use this GE tag-v.frick.you
>have you installed deps on winetrick?
>I think you need to edit regedit entry so it fixes vsync issues with wayland
to ad infintum. You could use that time to tinker with mods instead.
LOL
good morning sir
Good morning indeed, my dear.
I dont even play valorant and I'm still switching to Linux.
Pretty sure Valorant spyware doesnt run on linux either
boy i sure have been seeing a lot of "STOP USING 7" shilling lately. i'm sure my fellow anons care deeply about this.
how organic.
Chink data stealing software needs more advanced CIA data stealing software to run
>Ganker is so moronic they will gladly use an end of service OS that no longer receives security updates
>thread is filled with "lol security updates are just a meme bro theyre not even real!"
What the frick is wrong with this board? How the frick is it so tech illiterate? If you don't want to use windows 10 or 11 sure, fine, but don't stay on an unsupported OS like an actual dumb frick moron.
Haven't had a virus or security issue in over 10 years
That's because security update support for 7 ended just 2 days ago you dumb frick.
Neither have I updated in 10 years
Are you talking about those malicious software removal updates released every month? I'm pretty sure those don't do anything
i have a theory that the cumulative time wasted dealing with MS's security bullshit, slowdowns from scans etc is greater than the amount of time it takes to just restore your box from a backup on the off chance you get hit by the elusive and vague 'malware'.
>hosts file to block ad networks/tracking
>be extremely cautious pirating stuff
>avoid clicking on every popup warning you that your computer is at risk like a moronic circus animal
it's really not that hard.
Because most of those security risks now operate at a kernal level.
It's like 90% certain your machine is part of a botnet and you wouldn't be any the wiser because it has pretty much full access to your system's root, and falsify it's presence on task manager, integrate itself into basic functions of your machine, and skim off your machine's resources without you really ever realizing.
If you don't care about that, so be it, just know you're sharing your computer with someone else, probably.
Last legit malware I got was back in XP, and I download pirate games from weird websites all the time. I really am amazed when people managed to get infected with shit nowadays, and I don't use any anti-virus shit for decades now.
the best anti-virus in the world is simply having common sense and a little bit of computer literacy. sure you might be slapped by someone with a virus once in a long while, but 99.999% of issues can be solved by just not being stupid and clicking on dumb suspicious bullshit.
always has been
always will be
have fun being monitored like a baby you fricking sissy.
>haha im not getting monitored by microsoft!
>instead im on an OS with potential vulnerabilities so that ANYONE can monitor me!
>that'll show them!
I don't understand this board.
serious question, how long did you wear a mask due to covid?
i get the idea that you're very compliant when percieved authority informs you of 'risk'
Ah ok so there it is, this has nothing to do with security or technology and everything to do with social politics posturing on the internet, like everything else on this board.
well it's a valid point
MS says
>you're at risk, you must use our new OS
>oh btw, it's loaded to the gills with telemetry.
>oh and we're going to obviate your ability to disable our constant, half baked updates
>we'll restart your computer on a whim. because frick you, that's why.
just saying, MS has a case of apple envy and it's really annoying that there's no real pushback against it. wish the year of the linux desktop wasn't perpetually 5 years off.
id start learning linux right now if game devs included it in their supported OS base
i mean im sure there is probably a way to get most games to run on linux with some hacky workarounds but i dont know those workarounds
well, steam + proton works well enough honestly. But there's always some random god damn config file that needs to be babysat, or slightly 'off' behavior that feels less polished than windows.
overall it just comes across as if the devs just assume you know how to apply the duct tape needed to keep everything running. use debian/centOS for work, but it's all CLI.. the xorg stuff is still not ready for primetime.
Honestly linux is easy to learn if you just don't turn your brain off and disregard launch options, and just learn what they do.
for most games it is uninronically "it just works" with steam.
Pirating seems a bit more complicated but doable.
What really piss me off with linux is all the other stuff that isn't gaming.
If you don't how to not click on an ad that says "Free Iphone CLICK HERE" then you're moronic.
If we're talking OLD windows deliberate vulnerabilities, we're talking intentional holes left explicitly in individual applications, like some of media player's built in exploits.
It's not really the same case where they were building shit into basic drivers and dependency stacks as is the standard now.
By the by, this probably doesn't need to be stated, but don't use Internet Explorer, or Windows Media Player, unless you're totally sure of the stuff you're running.
because you're moronic
>can
that's the key word. you either give your data to microsoft directly or run the risk that maybe someone else might target you and you'll be less protected
goys will gladly stick microsofts dick in their ass to stop a potential dick from entering their butthole
yes, yes they don't see anything wrong with that.
captcha:m4GAY
What are the drawbacks of being monitored if I'm not in USA?
>set up blocklists on router for known malware domains
>disable Javascript unless needed
>don't allow any program you install default firewall access
Damn, that sure was difficult.
>Calling people tech illiterate while claiming OS patches are the only way to protect your system
This has to be bait, right?
i will never install windows 10 or windows 11 because:
a. i absolutely hate the UI for both
b. classic shells still do not run like w7
c. i do not want my data harvested by microshit for any reason whatsoever (the big one)
nothing that anyone says will change my mind, and the tactics of forcing game developers to use dx12 which would work on w7 if microshit had not deliberately altered it to make it NOT work on w7 as a method of forcing people to downgrade to w10/11 only disgusts me and makes me look down on microshit further, as does their other market manipulation tactics like forcing upgrades on machines that werent really monitored then claiming them numerically to inflate usage stats, buying out and coercing pc builders to make sure w10/11 is the only option for prebuilts (not that i use a prebuilt but a LOT of people do), and so forth.
i dont like that i cant play things like hogwarts: legacy, yakuza judgment, or death stranding
but my disappointment at not being able to play games that use dx12 only is never going to be greater than my desire to keep my information to myself and have an actually functional UI on my OS. its just not.
addition: if microshit makes windows 13 or some other OS, i'll be glad to look at it and give it its fair shake, but if it has a dogshit mobile phone inspired UI and/or harvests your data, then ill skip that one too.
While I understand for modern multiplayer games, the user base is viewed as literal disposable cattle to be milked for money.
It will never not be both gross and weird to me that major companies treat their paying customers with such open contempt and disrespect.
Yes I am aware of the irony with posting a nintendo affiliated director as a reaction image.
Just use a script to debloat W11.
Does that remove all the built in telemetry?
there are 8 billion people in the world
how many do you think understands what "idk" means?
Windows is only getting worse and for anyone rational win10 should be the last straw
I fricking detest spending decades on windows and Linux is only getting better
My next hardware upgrade is when I'll permanently switch and I'll just run a VM for the tiny sliver of software with issues
>My next hardware upgrade is when I'll permanently switch and I'll just run a VM for the tiny sliver of software with issues
same
still on 10, looked at 11 and got to the part where you cannot ungroup task bar items, and yeah, that's not going to fly.
But in all spheres we seem to be sleep walking into more top-down control (government, politics, media, etc etc) and less freedom of actual choice.
it's frightening.
Windows 11 CHADS, how do I bypass the anti-piracy filter?
Literal who?
what is it about you windows homosexuals that makes you defend it so hard
there's nothing left and microshit is doing everything they can to bury it
the glory days of xp and 7 are long gone
Nothing wrong with using Windows 11 and I will continue using it and installing the latest security updates straight from Microsoft.
>Windows 10
>Random freezing
>Ctrl-Alt-Del is fricking useless
W7 was better
>Random freezing
sounds like user error
sounds like dying HDD/SSD
can also happen when the installation drive is full/near full
I really hope it is a long time before they force people onto 11.
Valorant is the worst Riot game and it's not close. The team behind it are the most woke soi homosexuals by far and the game is a twitch shooter so it's full of underage by default.
LoL is old and neglected but I'd still rather play it over Valorant.
The actual good Riot games are TFT and LoR.
It's very hard to believe Valorant has the same art director as TF2, the game looks so incredibly soulless and generic.
Friendly reminder that people whining about your data being stolen are probably American and it's been legal for your ISP to sell data off to whoever they want to for the last two decades. There are literally companies built to both monitor your ISPs web traffic and this is why Americans can receive cease and desist letters for just using torrent programs. Whining about the OS and sitting on Windows 7 or XP or whatever is a sign that you actually do not give a frick about privacy. You are not working to fix the issue, you are complacent and rotting and moronic.
I've been on the insider dev builds on windows 11 since day one
there's hardly any issues, sometimes a build will have a small driver and that's it
>there's hardly any issues
NOW
these are the issues i have had the past few years on the VERY EXPERIMENTAL builds
-delete key will often not function in explorer
-there used to be an explorer memory leak
-they will sometimes force install a very experimental nvidia driver
-firefox used to have issues with dev builds at times
thats about it, nothing that really concerns gaming.
I'm enjoying Windows 11 now and would recommend it to people but I also updated day 1 and it was fricking terrible for months. I had compatibility issues and broken interfaces for half a year.
the shipped a very barebones windows 11 for people on stable but if you were on the dev builds from the get go you were like a year ahead of stable
Theyre not stealing your win 10/11 data you absolute mongoloids.
they asked in the EULA if they could have it and you had no choice but to 'click yes'
>twitter screencap
>eceleb
oh no, we can't play a bad game by a bad company with awful software cheat detector...
in conclusion, if you use any windows past 7, you are a massive fricking moron and you dont belong here
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>in conclusion, if you use any windows besides 11, you are a massive fricking moron and you dont belong here
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if you're on 11 you're a naive technologically inept child
if you're a fresh newbie that just bought a computer for the first time in his life there's absolutely no reason for it to be windows
don't willingly submerge yourself in this sludge
gays on 7 are the tech illiterates.
If you don't people using 7 then just ignore them chud.
7 users are more literate than you
they don't move on to the new shiny thing like a shit eating maggot
7 users don't know shit about computers.
and that's coming from a windows 11 user?
Its coming from someone who doesn't use abandonware.
you're calling sceptical oldgays who used computers before you were even born stupid?
I'm older than you.
you're not older than anyone
the only way you could be bootlicking microsoft to the extent of using 11 is if you're young or incomptent
I'm older than you.
Nothing wrong with parental controls.
if you're a lazy parent who needs software to do your job for you, sure
yes, because he treats the shit that gets posted by shills on Ganker as gospel
i bet he doesnt even know every single process that his OS is running
today 7 users are the same people that didn't upgrade from xp to 7 claiming xp is the last good windows and also the same people who didn't upgrade from 98 to xp
in other words their opinion is irrelevant
They will eventually make the switch to 10 like they always do, and then they will say that 10 is the best Windows and they will never switch to 11.
win7 user here, planning either update to 11 or to 12 depending on software support for 7.
But ofc with BS removed.
>then they will say that 10 is the best Windows
thats never going to happen
7 was a somewhat competent OS, 10 is pure dogshit no matter which way you look at it
>moronic twtich homosexual doesnt know how to use computers and blames his OS
You're gonna need a better example here
more like
>typical windows 10 user
homosexual
more like
>typical windows 7 user
moron
>today 7 users are the same people that didn't upgrade from xp to 7 claiming xp
anon, there are a lot of reasons not to like 10 or 11, people want xp and 7 for reason, don't turn Win into another unstable Arch Linux and experiment on your fricking users every 5 minutes. Win 10/11 has some good nice features under layer of shit.
>today 7 users are the same people that didn't upgrade from xp to 7 claiming xp is the last good windows
nope, when I've upgraded from XP to 7 i was unpleasantly surprised with DOGSHIT UI responsiveness on 5400rpm hdds, everything past XP is unusable on HDD. Win 7 also had some fair share of knows bugs, but I'm still windows 7 user knowing its +/-, but when you say about 'upgrade', I'm facing yet another choice between dildo and dildo (or linux I guess).
ill be moving to linux soon
anything to escape the shitmire that wangblows has become
>he's still using HDDs
So these are the people still using 7.
>So these are the people still using 7.
original anon here, it was 10 years ago, bought SSD since then, pain was too unbearable.
>7 users don't know shit about computers.
i'm user since DOS and using 7 right now, I did not upgrade because it was not upgrade for the most part but dickheads shuffling and degenerating UI even more.
My Win7 is 10 years old at this point and outlived your Win 10 is last version shit, now they released Win 11 turd with more experiments on poor users.
Can they just make Windows Stable or smth with BS removed that just works without those experiments? I'm not your monkey to do UI experiments and you even want me to pay for this horseshit!?
Where can I get a windows 10 ltsc key so that I can play valorant. And no I'm not going to use kms activation
Ebay
LTSC is typically for shit like hospital machines or kiosk's that don't need any of the typical Windows shit, they're meant to just do their job and last forever while still offering support for software that runs on Windows. So if you want an official LTSC license expect to pay four digits. If you want a pre-activated one, there is a solid chance it is going to of been activated by KMS regardless.
BTW, is your Win 10/11 sTaBlE already? Windows 7 chad will not upgrade to untested OS by pleb like you, keep testing b***h, MS and their shit beta-tester-users doing poor job after 10 years of win 10 :/ And you want me to upgrade to that?
>exclusivelly
Oh no, what will I do without the chinese spyware CS:GO clone for zoomers
Windows 7 user dilemma after extended support ending:
Turd #1 - win10, or Turd #2 - win11.
I'm not even talking about MS account and ridiculous PC hardware requirements, like everyone is hipster running new and cool Ryzen 7 + 3060, while reality is very different, you have enormous amount of old PCs that will not be updated, 10 years old PC/laptop is common.