Should I upgrade to Windows 10?

[H4Z3R3K]

Hey. I have a question. On my pc I'm running windows 7 and lately I was thinging about upgrading to windows 10. Should I do this? What benefits windows 10 has over windows 7? (I know that windows 10 uses more ram)

Pc specs (if that will help)

i5-7600K, 126GB m.2, gtx 1070, 16Gb ram at 2400mhz

[hconverse02]

Yeah better game optimization and after windows 7 lost support, windows 10 has just been better overall, even though it can be annoying at times. 

[App4that]

Security updates, reason enough. 

[GrockleTD]

2 hours ago, H4Z3R3K said:

Hey. I have a question. On my pc I'm running windows 7 and lately I was thinging about upgrading to windows 10. Should I do this? What benefits windows 10 has over windows 7? (I know that windows 10 uses more ram)

Pc specs (if that will help)

i5-7600K, 126GB m.2, gtx 1070, 16Gb ram at 2400mhz

yes.

[JoostinOnline]

I would upgrade. At idle, Windows uses about 2.1GB in my experience. I'm not crazy about Windows 10, but you'll need to do it at some point if you want to be secure.

[GrockleTD]

2 hours ago, JoostinOnline said:

I would upgrade. At idle, Windows uses about 2.1GB in my experience. I'm not crazy about Windows 10, but you'll need to do it at some point if you want to be secure.

saw your location, checked, you lied.

[Ashleyyyy]

you are using windows 7 on kaby lake? you realize you are not getting security updates right? 

 

I would upgrade for that reason alone. 

[pipnina]

Didn't Microsoft go back on restricting Win7 upgrades on new CPUs? And it's official EOS is 2021 IIRC so shouldn't Win7 still work for about 3 years with security updates?

[SpaceGhostC2C]

It's your PC. I wouldn't.

Like any other OS, Windows 7 won't do you good forever, but the solution is to look for an actual upgrade in the meantime.

Although a literal "upgrade" is unlikely to happen. While many things under the hood are inherited from previous Windows, Windows 10 was conceived very differently than Windows 7, to the point in which you cannot really consider it "a better version of the same", but rather a change in OS. At this point, it is like asking if you should upgrade Ubuntu to MacOS or vice-versa.

[Crunchy Dragon]

You'll essentially be forced to if you upgrade your hardware. Windows 7 has lost native support with a lot of recent platforms, such as Ryzen and Coffee Lake. When I got Ryzen, I just decided to upgrade to Windows 10 instead of going through the hassle of getting 7 to work on it.

 

Overall, I'm finding 10 to be better than 7, but that could just be me.

[ImNotDeViLzzz]

Just dual boot.  Seriously there are many times where I see Windows 10 won't run this game and that game so if you have to have Windows 10 put it on one partition and other operating systems on other partitions.

[Delicieuxz]

I think the main benefit a person gets from installing Windows 10 over Windows 7 is psychological. I'm using both and can't find any functional positives in Windows 10 over Windows 7. I do notice, however, that Windows 10 is a major stress-case, always trying to take control from the system owner, auto-installing updates, resetting user configurations, uninstalling programs with some major updates, restarting the PC and unwanted times, and harvesting so much personal user data, and not offering the system owner control over any of it.

 

If you play old games on your system, then Windows 7 has advantages, which I've detailed in this post:

 

 

 

12 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

You'll essentially be forced to if you upgrade your hardware. Windows 7 has lost native support with a lot of recent platforms, such as Ryzen and Coffee Lake. When I got Ryzen, I just decided to upgrade to Windows 10 instead of going through the hassle of getting 7 to work on it.

There is no hassle in getting Windows 7 to work on the latest AMD and Intel CPUs because they simply work with Windows 7, no hassle.

 

There are even official chipset drivers for Ryzen and Threadripper on Windows 7: https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/chipset?os=Windows 10 - 64

 

Though, neither AMD or Intel's latest CPUs need any drivers to work in Windows 7.

 

13 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

you are using windows 7 on kaby lake? you realize you are not getting security updates right? 

 

I would upgrade for that reason alone. 

If a person wants Windows 7 security updates with the latest Intel and AMD CPUs, they only need to install this patch: https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

 

Then Windows Update will be re-enabled. The obstruction of Windows Update for newer CPUs in Windows 7 is entirely artificial, done to try to force people to use Windows 10 so that Microsoft can steal their personal data and sell it for Microsoft's profit.

[Delicieuxz]

11 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

how painful was it? (asking for a friend...)

 

The only two things I see that the OP would have to prepare for when installing Windows 7 on their current system have nothing to do with which CPU they have.

 

If they were going to install Windows 7 via a bootable USB 3 drive instead of a DVD drive, then they would have to add USB 3 drivers to their Windows 7 installation media beforehand. A guide showing how to do that is here:

 

https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-install-windows-7-on-a-pc-with-only-usb-3-0-ports/

 

 

And if they were going to install Windows 7 to their m.2 drive (if it's NVME and not SATA), then I think they would need to do the same and add an NVME driver to their installation media. A guide showing how to do that is here:

 

https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-install-windows-7-on-a-pci-express-nvme-ssd/

 

 

And if they care about getting Windows Update stuff, then they can install this Windows Update fix after Windows 7 is installed:

 

https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc

 

 

Though, from how the OP is written, I gather that they're already using Windows 7 on their Kaby Lake system, and so would already know what they have to do.