The Cozy Win7 Thread

[Nosteru]

Hello Again Fellow Community!

This Thread is about Win7. You can free talk anything about that OS.
Be technical issues you need help, the future and past of the OS, some fun story you want to share, your opinion about it, your advice, useful apps and such.

This is the place for everyone interrested or against Win7.

Just please be polite and try to respect eachother.

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[r.linder]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Bad 💀 Motha:

Even Rockstar stopped allowing the use of their games on Win7/8 as they deem the OS a security risk.

Did they do so for security or because maintaining support for older operating systems was no longer sustainable?

More likely due to sustainability reasons, doesn't make much sense paying employees to keep supporting an operating system that so few still use. 7 is still mostly secure, for now.

[Crashed]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Crashed:

Did they do so for security or because maintaining support for older operating systems was no longer sustainable?

More likely due to sustainability reasons, doesn't make much sense paying employees to keep supporting an operating system that so few still use. 7 is still mostly secure, for now.

Doesn't that recent 8.8/10 Wi-Fi vulnerability affect Windows 7 too?

I only rum 7 in VMWare (also because my hardware can't run it natively) but lately my primary dev box is a Windows 11 24H2 VM.

[bidulless]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Crashed:

Diposting pertama kali oleh r.linder:

More likely due to sustainability reasons, doesn't make much sense paying employees to keep supporting an operating system that so few still use. 7 is still mostly secure, for now.

Doesn't that recent 8.8/10 Wi-Fi vulnerability affect Windows 7 too?

I only rum 7 in VMWare (also because my hardware can't run it natively) but lately my primary dev box is a Windows 11 24H2 VM.

hello

Surelly as most w10+ vulnerability also affect older os.Just check current jokecompany cve repport.
montly rollup update KB5039289
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2024-Jun
Windows Wi-Fi Driver CVE-2024-30078
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-30078 patched for windows 7 embedded and server

[Shaggin'Wagon]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Master.Constructor:

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Yes we understand that UpdatePack7 will modify and allow you to install various updates in those versions of Windows 7.

Thank you and congratulations on your progress. Windows 6.1 updates are designed to be used on Windows 6.1.

You are making up words I did not write and did not say. I never mentioned Windows 6.1, I never discussed it, or even hinted at it. Please do not make up things that I did not say and did not write. That is very very rude.

[Thermal Lance]

Well, I am done with Windows 7 on the test machine. It was an interesting experience to say the least.

Time to format it once more and re-install Mint.

[andreasaspenberg575]

windows 6.1=windows 7. windows 8 is windows 6.2 and windows 8.1 is 6.3. then they for some reason jumped from 6.3 all the way up to 10 for windows 10. . just so you know: windows vista is windows 6.0.

[bidulless]

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Well, I am done with Windows 7 on the test machine. It was an interesting experience to say the least.

Time to format it once more and re-install Mint.

hello
By chance, have you tryed bazzite ?

[Thermal Lance]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Thermal Lance:

Well, I am done with Windows 7 on the test machine. It was an interesting experience to say the least.

Time to format it once more and re-install Mint.

hello
By chance, have you tryed bazzite ?

Nah. I'm happy with what I got right now. Even if it's not perfect.

[bidulless]

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hello
By chance, have you tryed bazzite ?

Nah. I'm happy with what I got right now. Even if it's not perfect.

hello

I understand no worry, just wanted to have some feedback about it if you had some.

[Thermal Lance]

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Nah. I'm happy with what I got right now. Even if it's not perfect.

hello

I understand no worry, just wanted to have some feedback about it if you had some.

Well, I am going to take a look at it.

But, to give PROPER feedback I'd have to install it bare-metal and not in a VM. Because, y'know, it's kinda dumb to test drive a performance/gaming distro in a VM. Will never give an accurate picture of what the OS is capable of.

I -might- do it. If anything because it seems to be based on Fedora. Just like Nobara did, it got my curiosity. :P

But, TBH, I'm not expecting anything special here. I doubt there will be much of a difference with another gaming-centered distro.

If you want a solid choice for gaming and are not afraid of learning a few things, CachyOS would be my pick. Of all the distros I tried, it gave me the best performance out of the box. The only reason I use Garuda instead is that CachyOS seems to hate my hardware. As in, some modifications they did seems to not go along well with my laptop. Keep having weird issues with it and I can't be arsed to troubleshoot that ♥♥♥♥ straight after a fresh install.

I prefer something that works fine from the get-go. If it breaks later down the line, at least I'll have a decent idea of how/why it broke instead of the random ass issues I had.

[Master.Constructor]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Master.Constructor:

Thank you and congratulations on your progress. Windows 6.1 updates are designed to be used on Windows 6.1.

You are making up words I did not write and did not say. I never mentioned Windows 6.1, I never discussed it, or even hinted at it. Please do not make up things that I did not say and did not write. That is very very rude.

Windows 6.1 is not rude, Windows 6.1 is a fact.

Windows 6.1 has better support than 6.0, 6.2 and 6.3. It's a shame in some ways but I am very thankful for it (UpdatePack7).

[lailaamell]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Shaggin'Wagon:

You are making up words I did not write and did not say. I never mentioned Windows 6.1, I never discussed it, or even hinted at it. Please do not make up things that I did not say and did not write. That is very very rude.

Windows 6.1 is not rude, Windows 6.1 is a fact.

Windows 6.1 has better support than 6.0, 6.2 and 6.3. It's a shame in some ways but I am very thankful for it (UpdatePack7).

i rather use the 32bit win 7 as it was probly the best version of 7

[bidulless]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Thermal Lance:

Diposting pertama kali oleh bidulless:

hello

I understand no worry, just wanted to have some feedback about it if you had some.

Well, I am going to take a look at it.

But, to give PROPER feedback I'd have to install it bare-metal and not in a VM. Because, y'know, it's kinda dumb to test drive a performance/gaming distro in a VM. Will never give an accurate picture of what the OS is capable of.

I -might- do it. If anything because it seems to be based on Fedora. Just like Nobara did, it got my curiosity. :P

But, TBH, I'm not expecting anything special here. I doubt there will be much of a difference with another gaming-centered distro.

If you want a solid choice for gaming and are not afraid of learning a few things, CachyOS would be my pick. Of all the distros I tried, it gave me the best performance out of the box. The only reason I use Garuda instead is that CachyOS seems to hate my hardware. As in, some modifications they did seems to not go along well with my laptop. Keep having weird issues with it and I can't be arsed to troubleshoot that ♥♥♥♥ straight after a fresh install.

I prefer something that works fine from the get-go. If it breaks later down the line, at least I'll have a decent idea of how/why it broke instead of the random ass issues I had.

hello

thx @Thermal Lance, allready noted cachyos and andevouros into my test list on real env not vm when i will switch

[Thermal Lance]

Diposting pertama kali oleh bidulless:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Thermal Lance:

Well, I am going to take a look at it.

But, to give PROPER feedback I'd have to install it bare-metal and not in a VM. Because, y'know, it's kinda dumb to test drive a performance/gaming distro in a VM. Will never give an accurate picture of what the OS is capable of.

I -might- do it. If anything because it seems to be based on Fedora. Just like Nobara did, it got my curiosity. :P

But, TBH, I'm not expecting anything special here. I doubt there will be much of a difference with another gaming-centered distro.

If you want a solid choice for gaming and are not afraid of learning a few things, CachyOS would be my pick. Of all the distros I tried, it gave me the best performance out of the box. The only reason I use Garuda instead is that CachyOS seems to hate my hardware. As in, some modifications they did seems to not go along well with my laptop. Keep having weird issues with it and I can't be arsed to troubleshoot that ♥♥♥♥ straight after a fresh install.

I prefer something that works fine from the get-go. If it breaks later down the line, at least I'll have a decent idea of how/why it broke instead of the random ass issues I had.

hello

thx @Thermal Lance, allready noted cachyos and andevouros into my test list on real env not vm when i will switch

EndeavourOS is a treat too. :)

[r.linder]

CachyOS is a treat for those looking for maximum performance, though you can get the same optimizations on pretty much any Arch distro because it's all available on the AUR

For those looking for stability rather than performance, an LTS release distro would be the primary choice over a rolling release/bleeding edge distro like Pop!_OS