I actually RTFA and was thinking, "this dude should upgrade and run Win7 like me," - and was pleasantly surprised to find he is.
The only issue I've had was a few months ago Google Chrome now gives a small nag-bar on startup - supposedly dismissisable with a -flag, but the flag itself is either no longer functioning for some smirk sanctimonious reason, or more likely, hilariously not tested, and has since ironically regressed.
The only gripe from XP->Vista->7 is the respective mediocre, to amazing, to abysmal local search functionality.
Regarding 0-days: back when I had virtual valuables and wasn't a complete random, I had been specifically targeted and smitten with a TeamViewer 0-day. But, like the author notes, that would had happened regardless of my subscription to any one of the myriad of dubious AV products of the era.
win7, with its incredible native and specific backward compatibility mode, supports more apps than any other
virtual ecosystem. 25+ years of great software - some of which runs smoother than their great descendent counterpart. Shame to not at least have a box sitting around for the occasional sporadic encounter with an inane, archaic file type, needing to be fandangled into a newer format.
Steam just announced[0] their client will no longer work on Windows 7 come Jan 1st 2024. I figured this would happen as soon as I noticed they adopted Chromium Embedded Framework, guaranteeing that Google's supported OSes become Steam's supported OSes. I'm not exactly sure how I'm supposed to play Steam games from 2004 (or whatever) on the OS they were designed for, when Steam won't even run on that OS anymore. I guess I can hope that compatibility layers work well enough in newer Windows versions? Just kidding, my Windows gaming PC will now be a Linux gaming PC :)
Ah sick, but will they actually launch? IIRC the DRM requires that you sign in at least once a month (or something) to refresh the activation stuff so you can actually launch the game(s).
That was the era when my systems felt “most stable.”
Ok, I was also slipstreaming my installation CD-Rs and really putting time into it. Yet. The things that used the most memory and power were probably flash player and counterstrike. Those were not bad times!
I seriously never got malware, and always wondered what everyone else was doing differently than I.
If only filename search is needed the Everything would be enough, free.
But, surprisingly, most of the time I find what I need with built-in search in the Win10 Start Menu. Although I had to slap her hands not to show me web results.
The only issue I've had was a few months ago Google Chrome now gives a small nag-bar on startup - supposedly dismissisable with a -flag, but the flag itself is either no longer functioning for some smirk sanctimonious reason, or more likely, hilariously not tested, and has since ironically regressed.
The only gripe from XP->Vista->7 is the respective mediocre, to amazing, to abysmal local search functionality.
Regarding 0-days: back when I had virtual valuables and wasn't a complete random, I had been specifically targeted and smitten with a TeamViewer 0-day. But, like the author notes, that would had happened regardless of my subscription to any one of the myriad of dubious AV products of the era.
win7, with its incredible native and specific backward compatibility mode, supports more apps than any other virtual ecosystem. 25+ years of great software - some of which runs smoother than their great descendent counterpart. Shame to not at least have a box sitting around for the occasional sporadic encounter with an inane, archaic file type, needing to be fandangled into a newer format.