The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today!

Goodbye, sweet prince

There's a pretty good amount of people still using it, it seems.

OK guys, guess it's time to upgrade to Windows 8. I bet it'll be great!

They told me Windows 10 was the last Windows and I intend to make them fulfill that promise. And when I fail to make them fulfill their promise, I will keep it for myself.

I feel Microsoft is in for a huge surprise when they end support for all versions of Windows except one that requires you to throw out your old hardware. At the same time, Linux is better than it’s ever been and is almost, if not just as easy to use as Windows. Not to mention, most work is done from a browser these days.

What you mean ended? It was just released the other day...

There was official support for Windows 7?

Aww, that's the last version of windows I ever owned.

Windows 7 still has a similar market share to desktop Linux. I suspect that some of those users are holdouts, rejecting the Cortana nonsense but too stubborn or lazy to switch. But I'd also wager that, in the longer term, a decent portion of that 3% ends up on Linux.

Windows has been alternating between good and crap for decades. ME, crap. XP, good. Vista, crap. 7, good. 8/8.1, crap. 10, good…ish. 11, steaming feces. 12 will probably be at least half decent.

Lately I've been using OpenSUSE GNU/Linux and so far I've been relatively happy with. The installation process is simple and concise, and the system is rock-solid and easy to use.

I have an old ASUS laptop with a 670M on Windows 7, any prayer the jump to Linux for drivers will be smooth? 🤞

I have an i914900KF desktop on windows 11 (I have to use it) and loathe the OS lol. Definitely wish there were programs for chopping down Windows 11 spyware crap.

salute

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Peice of shit ready?

Huh. And here I thought, Piece Of Shit Ready required at least Windows 10.

I can't believe I haven't turned off recall on my latest computer. I need to harden it already... and make my transition to linux.

Wait, just now?

Then why did I read online that it was insecure as hell to stay in Windows 8.1? (I was setting up an old lap for a mom's friend, with 4 painful GBs of RAM).

Also, doesn't Windows 10 support supposedly end next year?

I think I am not getting the kind of support that Windows provides.

That won't stop us. I've still got customers on variants of Windows XP.