Going back to windows 7

[593d0459c1]

I love windows 7. Cant stand windows 10 its ugly and unusable. I have a copy of windows 7 pro 64 retail installed on my 5 year old notebook. I'm planning on buying a new notebook soon and want to upgrade it to windows 7. What challenges will I face? I know that amd and nvidia have dropped support for windows 7. But Im fine with legacy drivers. I dont game or do anything graphic intensive at all. Just youtube and word documents. 

[allanonmage]

I prefer the look and feel of Windows 7 too, but I like a good bit of what 10 brings too, especially on touch devices.  I will be keeping both and trying harder to figure out Linux.  I suspect that the current state of Windows dominance is nowhere what it was 5-10 years ago, and between websites and most FOSS programs being available on Linux anyways, it should be doable.

 

If I can just get through the support trolls and shills, it might work out.

[m9x3mos]

9 hours ago, 593d0459c1 said:

I love windows 7. Cant stand windows 10 its ugly and unusable. I have a copy of windows 7 pro 64 retail installed on my 5 year old notebook. I'm planning on buying a new notebook soon and want to upgrade it to windows 7. What challenges will I face? I know that amd and nvidia have dropped support for windows 7. But Im fine with legacy drivers. I dont game or do anything graphic intensive at all. Just youtube and word documents. 

The main problems you will run into is getting the drivers to load correctly. Then there are the security concerns with an os that is no longer getting updates. 

[593d0459c1]

5 hours ago, allanonmage said:

I prefer the look and feel of Windows 7 too, but I like a good bit of what 10 brings too, especially on touch devices.  I will be keeping both and trying harder to figure out Linux.  I suspect that the current state of Windows dominance is nowhere what it was 5-10 years ago, and between websites and most FOSS programs being available on Linux anyways, it should be doable.

 

If I can just get through the support trolls and shills, it might work out.

I dont use touch devices. Except for my iphone. Im angry that companies are gimping my computers performance on purpose. Up until two years ago. I had no problems running 1080p content from youtube. Now it lags like crazy when I open a tab or minimize/maximize a video. There is atleast a five second delay. No matter how much I've upgraded my computers. I dont have the same problem on my windows 10 install at all. Only on windows 7. I tried using linux, but it's untenable. It's not user friendly at all. I cant use a mac. I just cant. It requires me to rewire my brain and learn to accommodate it. And not the other way around like it should be. You have to be within a certain brain space to use a mac. That is something I just can not do.