win 7 vs win 10

[mockedarche]

So windows 10 has always felt slower than it should on my r7 1700 system with a sata ssd. Firefox took a bit to open and overall it just didn't feel snappy. I had eventually accepted that maybe my computer just wasn't fast enough to feel as fast as I expected. Recently (due to me disliking windows 10 more and more I mean a 61 cpu spike at idle???) I have moved to windows 7 and boy does it feel fast. I know its older so it technically should but geez I wasn't expecting this. Does anyone know why windows 7 doesn't just seem but is so much faster? Eventually in 2020 I will have to go back to windows 10 and would love to know how I could keep this speed when I move back.

[Jarno.]

hi @Ohsnaps

 

Well, ive experienced exaclly the same behaviour. W10 has alot background processes which are eating up system resources randomly one of which is scanning of malware or just mining data (telemetry)

 

One thing ive noticed though is that W10 works horrible when the PC involved doesnt have a SSD (difference between HDD or SSD is way more obvious then with W7 or LInux). Your PC has a SSD but maybe you can still gain soms performance by upgrading the filmware of your SSD if an update is available.

 

Above reasons are exaclly why im mainly using Linux now or W7 when i have to use Windows for whatever reason. Just is way more snappy and it does what is has to do

[mockedarche]

@Jarno.Yeah I always check and it just says I have the most current version never sure if it actually updates or anything. I tried Linux and (other not allowed to say) but with unity game development and gaming I wanted windows. Happy I found a fast os just sad how my relatively beefy system doesn't feel fast on the newest software. Guessing windows 7 is just less intensive making it snappier. ill be sad when 2020 comes maybe by then ill just fully leap to Linux.

[kb5zue]

Maybe, possibly, could be, that Windows 7 doesn't have all the crappy bloatware and other junk that Windows 10 is so famous for.  Just thinkin.........

[Jarno.]

@Ohsnaps

 

Unfortunately that might be your only choice if Microsoft decides to keep going the same direction. If you want to go to Linux i recommend that you start looking for good altanatives for software you're using. But for games support is still alot better at Windows.

 

What kinds of software are you using? maybe i can give you some recommendations there.

 

[Delicieuxz]

Every 6 months or something, Microsoft adds a bunch of additional bloatware to Windows 10. And there's also all the constant spyware and personal user data-harvesting going on in the background. I've ceased using Windows 10 for now due to constant new arising problems with it, and it being a noisy OS that was always trying to do something stealthily in the background.

 

I've had to fresh install Windows 10 3 times in 2 years, due to it bricking itself - twice after major updates, and then once out of the blue, with all updates disabled, and no modifications or patches done for anything in the days, and maybe longer, before suddenly explorer broke and all my desktop icons lost their icons, and all File Explorer icons also disappeared:

 

 

And then there are also many, many smaller issues with Windows 10, and it constantly needing some attention, or tweaking, or fixing, or upkeeping, or silencing.

 

But the same Windows 7 boot has been going strong for me for 5 - 7 years now, and is rock-solid and fast at everything.

 

 

Windows 10 is an obnoxious, bloated, inefficient, buggy, unreliable, tacky-looking stress-case. A lot of people drank the Microsoft Windows 10 kool-aid (or otherwise were waterboarded with it under it got into their lungs), but it seems to me that a lot of those who are defending it are thriving on their sentiments about what they want Windows 10 to be, rather than what it is. They've been lured into a delusion, and have become dissociated from reality.

 

People get hooked on, and addicted to sentiments. They want to think that some new OS is out, and now everything is so much better, and they just want to stay in that fictional atmosphere, that they shut their mind out to objectively looking at what's before them, and at how Windows OS things have become so much worse than they used to be.

 

Until Satya Nadella took over as CEO, Microsoft was a software company, which had its ups and downs. Today, under Satya Nadella, Micrsofot is no longer a software company, but is a data mining and selling company, and Windows and other MS services are merely mediums for Nadella's Microsoft to exploit and steal user data through.

 

One of the results of Microsoft not being a software company anymore is that modern Microsoft programming is pretty awful, to the point that an individual runs a far greater risk from accepting new updates from Microsoft than they do by refusing to update their OS at all. It's really that bad, and it has been for a long while now under Nadella.

 

3 hours ago, Ohsnaps said:

@Jarno.Yeah I always check and it just says I have the most current version never sure if it actually updates or anything. I tried Linux and (other not allowed to say) but with unity game development and gaming I wanted windows. Happy I found a fast os just sad how my relatively beefy system doesn't feel fast on the newest software. Guessing windows 7 is just less intensive making it snappier. ill be sad when 2020 comes maybe by then ill just fully leap to Linux.

Who says you need to keep Windows updated? There are people running Windows XP still and haven't updated it in many, many years, and yet have no problems.

 

The whole 'you have to keep your PC updated' thing is a bit, or a lot propaganda, when it comes to non-business users. You're only going to have an issue if you visit sites with malware, or download some malware and run it, maybe by opening some attachment in an email from a Nigerian prince that claims to have so much money that he wants to give a huge pile of it you, but you have to click his link to read the details about how to get it. But why would an internet-savvy person do that?

 

Also, you can run a 3rd-party anti-virus and anti-malware program to protect against most threats. Updating Windows itself is a huge risk these days.

[Methos]

It definitely is.

 

Why do you think people benchmark on XP and 7? Because it scores higher.

[aezakmi]

If you can install 7 with that CPU, just do it.

 

[Jot]

When I installed 10 first I was also disappointed by the performance, after disabling a lot of crap services (especially Cortana and all that telemetry) and installing Classic Shell it feels a lot more responsive. I sticked with Win7 for a very long time until just some months ago, but it feels abandoned by MS right now in terms of patch delivery/QA... either go 10 or switch to Linux