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.

To Moderators: On this forum OFF-Topic comments are allowed for polite and healthy discussion.

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[r.linder]

Автор сообщения: bidulless

Автор сообщения: r.linder

Google's Android OS is also an open-source OS originally based off a modified version of the Linux kernel, and almost half of all users of an OS in the world use Android, so they should really be grilling Google over that and not something stupid like Google Chrome, which anyone with actual knowledge of browsers knows is a terrible browser, as is basically any browser that uses certain Google services.

hello
and what does it mean for google to sell chrome exactly ....

It would mean handing off the source code for Chrome (since it's closed-source even though it's based on FOSS code) to another developer, however, it won't really change anything, there's no reason to use Chrome specifically over another Chromium browser like Brave, DuckDuckGo, ungoogled-chromium, or Vivaldi. Or really any variant of Firefox.

DOJ is just scared of one corporation having too much power online, and they should be, corporations like Google and Microsoft are literal Satan

[bidulless]

Автор сообщения: r.linder

Автор сообщения: bidulless

hello
and what does it mean for google to sell chrome exactly ....

It would mean handing off the source code for Chrome (since it's closed-source even though it's based on FOSS code) to another developer, however, it won't really change anything, there's no reason to use Chrome specifically over another Chromium browser like Brave, DuckDuckGo, ungoogled-chromium, or Vivaldi. Or really any variant of Firefox.

hello
agree but keep in mind
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide/
Chrome 65.25% just on desktup

[r.linder]

Автор сообщения: bidulless

Автор сообщения: r.linder

It would mean handing off the source code for Chrome (since it's closed-source even though it's based on FOSS code) to another developer, however, it won't really change anything, there's no reason to use Chrome specifically over another Chromium browser like Brave, DuckDuckGo, ungoogled-chromium, or Vivaldi. Or really any variant of Firefox.

hello
agree but keep in mind
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide/
Chrome 65.25% just on desktup

Sheep following other sheep.

[bidulless]

Автор сообщения: r.linder

Автор сообщения: bidulless

hello
agree but keep in mind
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide/
Chrome 65.25% just on desktup

Sheep following other sheep.

hello
completly agree with all both of you said
may be all that will be some kind of oportunity for newcomer in the browser market like https://ladybird.org/
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[bidulless]

hello
the issue of w11 24h2 continue to grow with 2 news issues
https://www.deskmodder.de/blog/2024/11/19/windows-11-24h2-externe-usb-audio-lautstaerke-steigt-auf-100-und-zeitzone-kann-in-den-einstellungen-nicht-korrigiert-werden/

[Nosteru]

Автор сообщения: r.linder

Yes, Chrome is just a specific browser managed by Google, it doesn't even matter if they're forced to get rid of it because they can just make another one, so that shouldn't be the DOJ's goal, it should be to force Google to change Chrome so it isn't full of Google spyware and junk.

Chrome is just based on Chromium, which is a free and open-source project, many individuals and teams have made browsers based on it. There are also frameworks like CEF (shocker), Electron, and Qt WebEngine that embed a Chromium browser as the functional core of custom applications.

Closed-source Chromium browsers include: Vivaldi, Arc, DuckDuckGo, Edge, Opera, Samsung Internet, Yandex, etc.

FOSS Chromium browsers include: Brave, Falkon, Konqueror, qutebrowser, and ungoogled-chromium.

Sidenote: This cool Vampire Survivor, Brotato kind Free game using Electron.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1910780/Fray_Fight/

[bidulless]

Автор сообщения: Nosteru

Автор сообщения: r.linder

Yes, Chrome is just a specific browser managed by Google, it doesn't even matter if they're forced to get rid of it because they can just make another one, so that shouldn't be the DOJ's goal, it should be to force Google to change Chrome so it isn't full of Google spyware and junk.

Chrome is just based on Chromium, which is a free and open-source project, many individuals and teams have made browsers based on it. There are also frameworks like CEF (shocker), Electron, and Qt WebEngine that embed a Chromium browser as the functional core of custom applications.

Closed-source Chromium browsers include: Vivaldi, Arc, DuckDuckGo, Edge, Opera, Samsung Internet, Yandex, etc.

FOSS Chromium browsers include: Brave, Falkon, Konqueror, qutebrowser, and ungoogled-chromium.

Sidenote: This cool Vampire Survivor, Brotato kind Free game using Electron.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1910780/Fray_Fight/

hello
but it's still chromium under the hood as say by the html file from it folder

[MonkehMaster]

as an fyi for anyone here who plays civ 5/6 (while the comments are about a game) or others games from 2k, anywho they are retiring their crappy adware launcher and "removing" it from all their games.

though the link i was reading had Q&A's and one mentions the launcher files still being in the game files.

so they might just be disabling it and basically leaving their "digital litter" on your pc, in the hopes you clean up after them

anywho, im glad to be rid of it and dont have to bypass it anymore, here is to hoping for more of those launchers from others to follow suit.


edit: also, seems (likely old news) microsoft is phasing out the use of kernel for anticheats, good news for linux and everyone else who hates those intrusive anticheats (kernel level ones).

wonder what solution devs come up with and what they will do with linux users (some of those devs seem to hate linux lol).

[bidulless]

hello
one new and nice update has been done to
https://store.steampowered.com/app/449710/REDCON/
but this game does not work anymore under w7 : gladly the studio used the beta tab to put the legacy release so thx to them for that.

[bidulless]

hello

not everything is mandatory bad in w11 and may be mikeysoft learned 2 or 3 things ( i would say forced to learn ) since it scrutiny by the congress about it hack and the way mikeysoft had hidden/ignored this and how mikeysoft delivered whql ( crowdstrike fiasco )
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/11/19/windows-security-and-resiliency-protecting-your-business/
well not so sur in fact ...
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-free-bing-wallpaper-app-for-windows-is-borderline-malware/

[kingjames488]

Автор сообщения: bidulless

hello

not everything is mandatory bad in w11 and may be mikeysoft learned 2 or 3 things ( i would say forced to learn ) since it scrutiny by the congress about it hack and the way mikeysoft had hidden/ignored this and how mikeysoft delivered whql ( crowdstrike fiasco )
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/11/19/windows-security-and-resiliency-protecting-your-business/
well not so sur in fact ...
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-free-bing-wallpaper-app-for-windows-is-borderline-malware/

microshaft still tried to slip me the co-pilot without my permission...

[r.linder]

Windows 10 is basically guaranteed to be getting the co-pilot whether or not people want it

[A&A]

Yep.
I also don't want the OS to do anything without my permission.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-app-that-promises-windows-performance-improvements-has-some-shady-stuff-inside/
lol... At this point just give me the source code of the OS to recompile it :D

[bidulless]

Автор сообщения: kingjames488

Автор сообщения: bidulless

hello

not everything is mandatory bad in w11 and may be mikeysoft learned 2 or 3 things ( i would say forced to learn ) since it scrutiny by the congress about it hack and the way mikeysoft had hidden/ignored this and how mikeysoft delivered whql ( crowdstrike fiasco )
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/11/19/windows-security-and-resiliency-protecting-your-business/
well not so sur in fact ...
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-free-bing-wallpaper-app-for-windows-is-borderline-malware/

microshaft still tried to slip me the co-pilot without my permission...

hello
https://www.osnews.com/story/141176/microsoft-pushes-full-screen-ads-for-copilot-pcs-on-windows-10-users/
https://www.borncity.com/blog/2024/11/21/windows-10-supportende-mehr-nutzer-bekommen-nag-screens-gezeigt/
are you in this case ?
weird because i do not have this on my vm

[bidulless]

hello
nice old tool that finally reached realase 1.0
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/11/19/freecad-version-1-0-released/
https://www.freecad.org/downloads.php
native linux,windows,and mac build

and again issue with mikeysoft but this time it's w10 ....
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-problems-with-updating-and-uninstalling-apps-on-windows-10/
there is a workaround
https://www.deskmodder.de/blog/2024/11/21/windows-10-22h2-gepackte-apps-koennen-moeglicherweise-nicht-aktualisiert-oder-deinstalliert-werden-workaround/