Windows 7

[dan357]

So me and my brother been talking, he is using on his Desktop Windows 10 Pro and I am using on my Laptop Windows 7 Ultimate (both PCs are old shit anyway), but  I told him that Win 7 is always better for me and it is less resource hungry and there is no spying from Microsoft... So what do you think it is still good OS in 2017 or should I upgrade

[Techicolors]

Microsoft is supporting W7 until 2020, but they're hammering away with W7 users to upgrade to W10. and with Intel's Kaby Lake supposedly only "working its best" with W10 (technically speedshift works better in W10 than in W7). 

 

 

[dan357]

2 minutes ago, Technicolors said:

Microsoft is supporting W7 until 2020, but they're hammering away with W7 users to upgrade to W10. and with Intel's Kaby Lake supposedly only "working its best" with W10 (technically speedshift works better in W10 than in W7). 

 

 

https://ark.intel.com/products/82105/Intel-Pentium-Processor-N3540-2M-Cache-up-to-2_66-GHz this is my cpu ( i know it is shit  , but money and work is in my region bad) 

[Guest]

Honestly windows 10 is better IMO, the spying thing is like why does it matter? Like these companies don't already know everything about us. But if you like windows 7, whatever floats your boat :b

[Mooshi]

This might trigger some members, but Win7 feels gross to use now after using Win10 for so long. I use Win7 at work, but definitely prefer my Win10 rig at home. (and because it isn't ass) 

[flibberdipper]

Windows 10 is honestly better than Windows 7. The only reason I still even use it on my laptop is that drivers work best on it, and I use it on my Plex server again because of drivers.

[dan357]

1 minute ago, Mooshi said:

This might trigger some members, but Win7 feels gross to use now after using Win10 for so long. I use Win7 at work, but definitely prefer my Win10 rig at home. (and because it isn't ass) 

Your opinion doesnt trigger me, friend, we should be nice at each other  

[YedZed]

It's not like they weren't spying on you on Windows 7. It's just a tad more. Besides, any social media site you use already gathers much more information than Microsoft does. 

I like Win10. Although  I do hate some of the bloatiness and hidden stuff, I find it generally more pleasing than Windows 7.

[NTDaws]

Windows 10 is way better then Windows 7, there is a better performance improvement compared to windows 7. Especially in gaming.

[dan357]

Also should i upgrade my Ram when i am using Chrome and basic tasks it goes to 52% and in games like WoW and LoL or CSGO and L4D2 i am getting to 70% of Ram usage when listening to music on youtube

[TetraSky]

Eh, it depends on your needs really.

Are you planning to play any Directx12 games? Do you care about the Windows Store?

 

Personally, I find Windows 10 to be better, like Mooshi said, after you get used to Win10, there's no going back.

I care not for the spying considering they added them to Windows 7/8 too(yes I know, uninstall the update bla bla bla, shut up) and you can disable most of them easily using applications like Anti-Beacon by Spybot or O&O ShutUp10. And it's not like they are literally taking your personal information to resell them for profit like others do, it's mainly telemetry data to know what you were running on your PC when it crashed and stuff like that, to help make Windows "better".

[Mooshi]

5 minutes ago, dan357 said:

Your opinion doesnt trigger me, friend, we should be nice at each other  

Some people get so upset with OS choices lol, to me I don't care if someone uses Win7,  OSX or some misc Linux distro, it's all good. 

[Guest]

I prefer win10. It looks much cleaner and performs much better on low-performance hardware. 

[dan357]

3 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Eh, it depends on your needs really.

Are you planning to play any Directx12 games? Do you care about the Windows Store?

 

Personally, I find Windows 10 to be better, like Mooshi said, after you get used to Win10, there's no going back.

I care not for the spying considering they added them to Windows 7/8 too(yes I know, uninstall the update bla bla bla, shut up) and you can disable most of them easily using applications like Anti-Beacon by Spybot or O&O ShutUp10. And it's not likely they are literally taking your personal information to resell them for profit like others do, it's mainly telemetry data to know what you were running on your PC when it crashed and stuff like that, to help make Windows "better".

I have Lumia device and it is fine with Windows 10, but i am worried about PC

[dan357]

2 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

Some people get so upset with OS choices lol, to me I don't care if someone uses Win7,  OSX or some misc Linux distro, it's all good. 

OSX is realy good i have tried it emulated

[Delicieuxz]

I use both Windows 7 and 10 regularly, and don't find any major difference between using either. They are both more the same than they are different, and Windows 7 has a lot more security from random actions, like the PC resetting on its own, downloading updates on its own, Windows Defender scan alerts, Windows Update alerts, in-OS advertising, etc.

 

Games generally run the same on either Win 7 or 10.

 

Here's my general comparison between the two OSes.

The things I like about Windows 10 are the faster boot-up time, and the more reliable sleep-mode (in Windows 7, sometimes my mouse doesn't work after waking from sleep-mode). There may be a couple of other things, too, that I'm not immediately thinking of.

 

The things I like about Windows 7 are the stability, the user control, the user interface, the increased privacy, the no in-OS ads, and other things.

 

I'd say that if you have to pay for Windows 10, then there's no real point in going from 7 to 10, until you know exactly why you want to. If you want to know what using Windows 10 is like, just use Windows 7, and then imagine that you couldn't control its updates, when the system resets, and that it was constantly collecting data on you and sending it to Microsoft, and voila: Windows 10.

[ybriK]

The funny thing is by default W7 already sends telemetry to MS, W10 just made it even more aggressive.

[Delicieuxz]

2 minutes ago, ybriK said:

The funny thing is by default W7 already sends telemetry to MS, W10 just made it even more aggressive.

Telemetry was back-added to Windows 7 in 2015. Though, the updates for telemetry can be not installed, keeping Windows 7 telemetry-free.

[dan357]

2 minutes ago, Delicieuxz said:

Telemetry was back-added to Windows 7 in 2015. Though, the updates for telemetry can be not installed, keeping Windows 7 telemetry-free.

I am going to disable it anyway

[GoodBytes]

1 hour ago, dan357 said:

So me and my brother been talking, he is using on his Desktop Windows 10 Pro and I am using on my Laptop Windows 7 Ultimate (both PCs are old shit anyway), but  I told him that Win 7 is always better for me and it is less resource hungry and there is no spying from Microsoft... So what do you think it is still good OS in 2017 or should I upgrade

Windows 10 is actually lighter on low-end systems. This is because since Windows 8, Microsoft was actively working on getting Windows running smoothly on Atom based systems to allow cheaper Windows powered tablets.

 

Windows 10 also has no spying. It does have telemetry data collection, and if you didn't do anything on your Windows 7 system, you have it enabled as we speak. Telemetry data collecting was introduced in Windows XP.