Tell me reasons why dont you install windows 10/11?

[Pom Pom]

since steam will drop support for w7/8 in 1 january 2024
i want to reason why dont you install it

1.your hardware is too old?
2.newer windows UI is crap?
3.sus more spyware?
4.bloatware?
5.can't run older game?
6.or just beloved windows 7/8 forever?
7.hate modern tech?
8.think that micro$oft are monopoly?
9.nostalgia enjoyer?
10.old software are better?

[Qbert ⭐]

lazyness and (in some cases) ignorance

[BlackBloodGhost]

Well for me personally, it's because I just don't like Windows overall. I've been using Linux since 2003 and exclusively without any version of Windows installed since ~2004. Fits me well, and I don't need to deal with Microsoft or Windows drama.

[Felinda Muliadi]

Sshh people will always find things to complain about, either because they are trying to farm awards, starting a pointless debate, or just wanting some attention from random people.

It's common sense by now to periodically upgrade your OS if you still want to actively use your PC/laptop, and at this point I'm not sure all those people actually still don't have W10/11.

[76561198346836306]

It is, w7 is the golden mean
It is crap, ngl
w10 is a malware
Planned obsolescence
I love old games
Those two got user friendly UI, that's why I stuck to it
I love modern tech
Isn't it monopoly? C'mon guys, there are windows everywhere
I like when it's stood the Test of Time
This NEW software is not compatible with my device version _error_

[Cat on Linux]

Linux user. I dislike everything about win 10 from its visual appearance to bloat, telemetry, poor legacy support for older games, time wasting updates, PC reboots. Most I can tolerate is win 7.
I will keep using win 7 till I'll decide it is time to change. Valve won't decide for me. Instead of letting people to create opensource legacy client with basic features Valve prefers to dictate which OSes we should use in order to access our games. and by strange "coincidence" when they released this new version of client with red nag about EOS for win 7 they broke Linux client on half of desktop environments so you can't change settings and basically can't install/change your games on Linux. are they pushing Linux users to Deck or to Windows 10 as well? Unless they will fix the client I'll consider it as such.

[76561198346836306]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ram:

Win 10 is garbage, and i dont have the pc/money to upgrade to Win 11

I feel you

[kamineko_218]

Win10's UI is a cluttered mess and the file explorer in Win7 is better. Also the planned obsolence annoys me.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

past non upgrader....

upgrade anxiety... its a thing...

if your not confident with your computer and how it works
or you have had experiences you dont understand or didnt
research why and how to fix then your going to avoid things
you need to do....

i still have upgrade anxiety or system crash anxiety... but its
more a memory experience that flares up even tho my computer
is running great on win 11.... i even did a bios update... yay

[76561198346836306]

Mayhaps I will upgrade to the new one, when I buy a new high end gaming pc

[Spike2135]

the obsolescence of windows 7-8 is once thing but the elephant in the room is... what happens when the standard becomes windows 11 +. Everyone who doesn't have windows 11 supportive hardware will have no choice but to buy a new PC, no matter how functional their current PC is.

business is business i guess....

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

i have win11 but i can give you a reason why win11 is bad

the canary beta channel broke my bluetooth and xbox one controller

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von kamineko_218:

Win10's UI is a cluttered mess and the file explorer in Win7 is better. Also the planned obsolence annoys me.

use openshell and startallback to make win10/11 LOOK IDENTICAL to win7

[Moogal™]

There is no nostalgia in Win7, that's for sure.

[Mirai]

It's hard to fault people for people who have stuck with it, it's a stable, reliable O.S. and probably the best one M.S. has ever produced but Win10 received a lot of negative P.R. right off the bat for spyware and that naturally turned people away. At the end of the free period Win10 made up just 5% of the user base, which was lower than even Win8, which was not well received due to it's U.I./interface decisions. It has taken it years and years to catch up in users.

Win11 has received negative P.R. for the linking of your O.S. and file access to a M.S. Account that you can be banned from, and M,S. has a very colorful history of banning users for no reason from a wide range of services they control and then leaving users no way to appeal the ban. How would you like to wake up and find yourself banned from your own P.C.? Yeah, I wouldn't like that either.

There does appear to be a way to create a local account which does not lock access to your files and O.S. to a M.S. account but I cannot confirm that as I do not have Win11, so whether or not that was, or is still an option, I do not know. But even if it is an option, that is not what people were being told about at it's launch, they were being warned about the MS account being linked to access to your PC and that's pretty scary. Most people do not actually verify to see if something is true or not, they see headlines about it and simply take those headlines as fact, so as soon someone claims it .. boom, damage has been done.

MS is just flat out making really stupid decisions, instead of just providing people with a safe, reliable and usable O.S. which is all anyone really wants. You just want to be able to use your PC and not worry about what kind of price or compromise you're paying to do it.

This is also why there's a surge in interest in Linux, while it's no tidal wave, there are more people paying attention and looking into Linux since compatibility is way up, Linux distros are free and run on a wide range of hardware really well, even really old machines. Thanks to Proton here on STEAM, many games work right out of the box or only require minor tweaking and there are even people who are able to play Diablo 4 on Steam-deck via Proton and if it can run on Proton, it should run on other Linux distros too. Windows isn't your sole answer anymore, Linux is still behind but it's catching up.

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Moogal™:

There is no nostalgia in Win7, that's for sure.

ya the nostalgia for me is winxp and win98 PLUS!