Now the upgrade is over, I'm curious to know if anyone has

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I know a few who did.
They will have fun paying 100 bucks in a couple years when their OS is fully obsolete.

The irony of them thinking 7 and 8.1 dont have spyware is palpable.

Still on XP.

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>>55831840

>>55831828
Everyone will jump to linux when windows 7 and 8.1 are fully deprecated.

I am still on 7. I don't see a reason to upgrade

>>55831857
i hear 7 is at least supported until 2020 or more

7 = New XP

>>55831819
You can't ever completely disable windows 10 telemetry.
Even if you try to filter it off at the router level, you're still fucked if you use more than your home connection.
Microsoft is actively pushing towards making this ever harder to do as well - see the recent group policy change for example. They _will_ break whatever workaround you use.
Even if you yourself are not concerned about the data collection, you still expose information about your friends and family via Microsoft's aggressive surveillance methods.
You should not use, support or endorse this operating system.

The spyware has been backported to Windows 7 and 8.1 as well.
You can much more easily remove it though - all it takes is uninstalling the related updates.
You can find out which via a quick google search for 'telemetry updates for windows 7 and 8.1', and then hiding them in Windows Update.
Don't forget to check for these every month or so, as Microsoft can push out new updates anytime that can reinstall the spyware.

Anybody who did not upgrade is dumb. There is a button in windows 10 called tablet mode which when you press it turns your computer back into the windows 8 style.

If you kept windows 8 you were just dumb.

>>55831894
see >>55831878 :)

>>55831894
>If you kept windows 8 you were just dumb.
>windows 8

if you even installed win8 you are dumb

Real men like win7

>>55831857
Why?

>>55831871
It's going to be the new XP and Microsoft might extend it for another two years or so just like XP.

I still have Windows 8.1

Im still using Windows 7 and completely ignored the free upgrade to Windows 10.

I love not having to deal with
>The app store
>Shitty settings menus
>Preinstalled candy crush
>Advertisements built into the OS
>Loss of control over updates
>Obscene amounts of phone home


When 7 stops working (it won't for a very long time) , I'll seek an alternative that doesn't have any of the above.

>>55831828
i'll switch to linux
fucking faggot windows

>>55831878
>FilterMe
>Added to whitelist
:^)

>>55831828
also, i upgraded to windows 10, and reverted it so i can have a free windows 10 upgrade whenever.

>>55831871
That's extended support for companies, mainstream support is already over.

>>55831819
I like how all the faggots on here post their DX12 benchmarks all the time yet DX12 is only on Win10. The hypocrisy.

On 7 for browsing the internet cpu usage stays below 13%. Tried 10 and simply browsing the internet the cpu usage would be 45% sometimes 64%.

Even if it's not spying. Having hardware under intense load when it's not needed can't be healthy over the lifespan.

>>55831840
now that's dedication

"Upgraded" to windows 10 last month then went back to windows 7. Now I can get Windows 10 on this motherboard anytime I want.

I have a W10 key but still on 8.1

Upgraded when it came out last year. Stayed on it up until last few months when it became more apparent what direction they're taking. Fuck this. I'm back on 7.

>>55831999
Probably dual booting and using it for gayman.

I'm on 7.

I saw no reason to upgrade to that Windows 10. I'm still running on Windows 7. All I saw was botnet written all over Windows 10 (Except running on Enterprise Edition).

Microsoft will do the offer again on Windows 11 or whatever they call on the next OS.

I was on Windows 10 for like a few weeks. Hated it. I'm on 7.

>>55832258
You don't get it. They are dropping the numbering or whatever comes after "Windows". It's just "Windows" from now on.

>>55831870
Me too.

>>55831999
Who cares about DX12 in this days. So poor yet.

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>>55831840

>>55831819
You can't ever completely disable windows 10 telemetry.
Even if you try to filter it off at the router level, you're still fucked if you use more than your home connection.
Microsoft is actively pushing towards making this ever harder to do as well - see the recent group policy change for example. They _will_ break whatever workaround you use.
Even if you yourself are not concerned about the data collection, you still expose information about your friends and family via Microsoft's aggressive surveillance methods.
You should not use, support or endorse this operating system.

The spyware has been backported to Windows 7 and 8.1 as well.
You can much more easily remove it though - all it takes is uninstalling the related updates.
You can find out which via a quick google search for 'telemetry updates for windows 7 and 8.1', and then hiding them in Windows Update.
Don't forget to check for these every month or so, as Microsoft can push out new updates anytime that can reinstall the spyware.

>>55831819
I'm running Windows 2000

>>55831819
>Now that the upgrade is over
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade
I knew this would happen.

>>55832465
My friend, if Microsoft continues to do that it will going to pay more crimes in to the judge.
Windows 7 no longer forced by Microsoft anymore.

I know this english is bad but take a read.

Microsoft returns to be processed by controversial

After paying $10,000 Dólars for forcing system upgrade, Redmond company is two new target lawsuits related to the platform upgrade.

Microsoft is facing two lawsuits because of their questionable tactics to stimulate the upgrade from Windows 10. Both seek the status of class actions.
The first was done in a Florida court and points to upgrade Windows 10 by Microsoft "violates the electronic ads laws unsolicited" as the paper reports The Seattle Times. The lawsuit also claims that the Redmond company's tactics go against the rules of the US Federal Trade Commission related to unfair and deceptive practices.
The second process was entered into on June Haifa, Israel, and accuses Microsoft to install Windows 10 on users' computers without authorization.
Remember that Microsoft has had to pay an indemnity of $ 10,000 in a similar process
In an interview with the Seattle Times, Microsoft said it believes these two new processes will not be successful.
The free upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 7 users and 8.1 will be officially closed this Friday, 7/29, when the complete system a year on the market.

PS: FEEL FREE TO UPDATE WINDOWS 7 AT THE LAST VERSION AND REMOVE THE SHIT GWX.EXE from KB3035583.
Restart your PC.
Ignore this update.
Desactivate Windows Updates.
Use Spybot Anti-Beacon and DWS_Lite to block all options.
Ready to go.

FUCK YOU MICROSHIT!!!

>>55832530
wat

>>55832530
Crazy Microsoft as usual, bleeding like obama words to force hillary to be president. Troll Niggas working on microsoft in 5.. 4.. 3...

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>>55832530

lol

>>55831857
This is what they said when XP went out the door.

It didn't happen.

>>55831819
yes, tho it's my secondary OS only

>>55831857
>Move to Linux
>I have hundreads of windows games

NAH!

>>55831878

>>55831857
lolno

>be me
>fuck up debian cause i haven't updated it in a year and apt-get wouldn't install anything
>say fuck it and reinstall windows from the factory lenovo back up disks (kind of havent done a bios update in 6 years anyway)
>completed the install at 12:01 today
>find out now w10
>also find out no w7 updates (just sits there "checking up dates")
>tfw completely dodged the botnet and all the bloat ware on my laptop is outdated or drivers for the hardware (scan your finger here goyim, easy unlock see)

>>55832920
You said it m8.

I didn't know windows had a built in flac converter that's p cool

>>55831819
There are no drivers for my drawing tablet for win 10 and no plans to make any so I didn't upgrade

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>>55832977
>Drivers is not fault of Microsoft they said

Why i buy External Driver Discs?

>>55832530
Microsoft be trolling

>>55832955
Win7Ultimate 4 lyfe

>>55831819
Everyone who isn't a retard stayed on 8.1

>>55831828
>keep win7
>open source takes off as MS charge monthly subscriptions for an OS
>adopt Linux when it has support for everything
Im ready baby

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>Be in the market for a work/school tablet for long time.
>MS pushing ARM and Windows RT, noooope.
>MS and intel cavalier as fuck pushing Atom devices.
>x86 finally, okay I'll bite now.
>Runs win8.1 very well.

Bought a Atom z2760 device thinking it would be supported for a reasonable amount of time. But instead they axed my OS, and the few of the great apps people used(health and fitness) even the third party ones(all the cooks). First Atom 2760 wasn't on the "upgradable" list. Then during a year of miffed consumer complaining Intel says it's MS's responsibility to make compatible drivers. After that, someone(intel?) finally puts out a required vid driver for us and it works unusably poor. MS has been abusing the Windows Update to essentially "crowdsource" beta testing and debug for their OS for over a year and still can't get it right on many devices.

Software has gotten so shekel-mongering that we're getting lower and lower quality experiences for the same or much more money and I wish our culture would reject that behavior.

>>55831921
This is the new Microsoft. If anything, they will cut the support period by two years instead. As far as they are concerned, anything that isn't Windows 10 is dead. Also see: Massive problems just trying to get Windows 7 to even update properly.

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I hated Windows 10 and went back to 7. 7 works fine for me and if it isn't broken why fix it?

Plus, I like to use 1440x900 resolution because it's easier on my eyes and great for the many legacy games I play. But, when I scaled down my res in Win10, it added black bars on the sides and the picture looked squished. Using the size slider in the settings didn't solve my problem, either.

I don't like how it manages settings and devices either. The whole feel put me off. I do plan on using it in the late future when 7 is completely obsolete or unusable. Sad.

>>55833437
>when I scaled down my res in Win10, it added black bars on the sides and the picture looked squished. Using the size slider in the settings didn't solve my problem, either.
It probably installed the correct videocard driver for you automatically and you forgot to check there. Intel, AMD and NVidia all have their own seperate control panels for their display drivers ..

>>55833335
>I wish our culture would reject that behavior.
For the most part, they have. Android is immensely popular, and given away for free.

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>>55833432
That's an iffy forcast. What could instead happen is that MS will not axe support for our older OS's to keep from losing market share from people now antsing to jump ship. There's significantly less reason to use MS as a software provider even before proving themselves willing to increase sales by segmenting their market and forcing some of those segments to gief more monies or else.

Software is becoming like US presidency. All the options suck and you have to live with the least of all evils.

>>55831819
I use w7 and xp for visual novels. w8.1 as main

>>55831828
Not if you block their host URLS and use firewall to block their domain services manually. Just find the URL & ip to block it

>>55831828
If not use peerblock or cryptostorm. Cryptostorm is free service but slow encryption cause it's really deep. Don't use TCP on it and use UDP. TCP is Transfer control Protocol while UDP is User Datagram Protocol.

What I'll most likely do is have Windows 8.1 for the majority of my games, Windows 10 for DX 12, and Ubuntu for my personal work. Is this a good idea, or will Windows 10's telemetry extend over to the Windows 8.1 partition?

Was on Arch as only OS for around a year after this Win10 shit started.
Then I decided to grab my Win10 copy in case I ever needed it for whatever reason. Let me tell you, it's great. It feels way more solid than a year ago. It feels stable and fast as shit. I'm not saying I'll abandon Arch, but rather I think I will be happy to get back to a dual boot.

But yeah, fuck the spyware.

>>55833312
>open source takes off
lol

>>55833560
Why cant you use higher than 7 for your VN memes?

>>55831819
I have Win7 still

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I'm still using Win 7 but I'm tired of Microsoft stupid shit.

Right now I'm playing arround with Suse Studio and try to see if I can make my own Linux distro.

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>>55833784
why should I explain it to a tech illiterate /v/tard

>>55833617
This is the most pointless idea I've heard of in a long time.

> It's a store fronts episode

>>55831819
poo in loo

>>55831819
still on win7. i'm will wait a year-two and see what kind of shit MS will try to push in upcoming updates. if everything will be alright, will probably install LTSB N. I doubt it though.

>>55831857
if the games i play wouldn't have that much bugs on linux i wouldn't even boot up windows

>>55831828
My last update was in 2014, so no, I don't have spyware.
>paying for Windows
Kekeroni.

>>55834318
>so no, I don't have spyware.
you mean you dont have microsoft spyware. No doubt you have a boatload of malware that came in through your non patched system though.


(not an advocate of win 10 btw)

>>55831819
I tried W10 for about 15 minutes and switched back to 7. Any of this W8 pseudo-tablet shit is too much

>>55834318
>implying Windows hasn't had spyware since 98
Delusional.

>>55832530
This is pretty funny. Way to go Microsoft.

>>55834355
>Since XP

ftfy

>>55831819
My dad updated his laptop and suddenly it ran like shit
So i took heed and kept my Desktop on W7

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I'm still on Windows 7 and I mostly use my computer for games.

Until a game comes out on DX12 that I can't miss (which will force me to dualboot) I rather bruteforce the performance than upgrading to W10. It's not even about the telemetry, it's about the bullshit way it forces Windows Store, incompatibility issues with older software (especially Japanese stuff), and the fucking forced updates that piss me off whenever I use my laptop which is running W10.

The advantages don't overweight the negatives. Even less so if Vulkan gets popular and kills the need for DX12. When I upgraded from XP to 7 I felt the changes and the advantages. There is just nothing for me on 10.

I upgraded to 10 yesterday to leave the option open in the future on my gay man PC, but im going to downgrade (upgrade) back to Windows 7 soon. Didn't even bother to do that on my laptop -- Intel integrated 4000 graphics aren't going to be doing DX12 any time soon.

>>55831979
Can you explain how does someone go to windows 10 again after going back ?

I'm still using Windows 7 but actively trying to make the switch to Linux. I will not be using Windows 10 unless I need to for a job.

>>55834336
>he fell for ZE VIRUSES meme
I intentionally disable security measures because they get in my way. No malware since 2010(probably more, this is simply when I bought my laptop).

>>55835091

Just run the upgrade again - your motherboard should be flagged as having purchased whatever version you got from upgrading. You can download the installation files again and run them if you already upgraded once without needing to key anything or whatever.

Hypothetically. Don't actually do it unless you really need to obviously.

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>>55831828
hahaha, I'm not a retarded moron

I will wait it out and see what happens but the thing I will never do ever no matter what happens is buy/steal/install/sell/use windows 10

Windows 7 for the past 6 years.

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>>55832530
HAHAHAHAHAHA

>being that desperate

just fire everyone and close the company

IT'S OVER

>>55832530
>upgrade to W10 if you're disabled
Mentally disabled. W10 user base in a nutshell.

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Hey /g/, is it safe now? Can I click this button without having to deal with all the bullshit our will MS starts annoying me about the about it till 2020?

Didn't update because my disks are full almost to the brim, and Microsoft nagging me to update is just plain obnoxious.

Also, would you pay for an OS that has ads and spies on you? that what will happen when Intel changes their sockets

I have i5-750 CPU on desktop, thats too old for Win 10.

But, truth to be told, I have copy of Win 10 Edu that I would probably dual boot wtih existing 7, once I get whole PC upgrade. Would be pointless to bind it to old motherboard now.

I did upgrade on my laptop with Win 8.1 N, tho, finally runs Pascal programs, that previously refused to even start, for some unknow reason (in before - I asked /sqt/ several times, never got reply, so probably they didnt knew either).

I have Win 10 on my work copmuter since two months and it was not that bad as I expected.

>>55831849
Aww yeah lad this will never ever die

>>55833312
im with you buddy

>>55831819
I wanted to upgrade, but it kept failing. I tried on thursday, and the download took 6 hours. I had to go to bed. When i woke up, my computer booted into win 10 recovery, and when I restarted, it just went back to win 7.

So here I am, on my one day off, trying to get win 10 to work, and it keeps getting stuck on "checking for updates". This is fucking retarded.

So I go to check my normal windows 7 updates, to see if there is a prep patch that I didnt get, and now I can't update windows 7. It will just keep "checking for updates" into forever. To make life better, all my sys restore points are gone.

Fuck win 10. I have 1 day off to unfuck myself, and I am not spending it sweating over shitty outsourced indian software.

bought a surface pro with windows 10 installed, didnt' like the botnet, reverted back to 8.1 pro. I should be able to get windows 10 anytimes I want now,.

>>55834318
>>>55831828
>My last update was in 2014, so no, I don't have spyware.
Hahahaha that's cute

>>55831819
Right here. Because I use the dream spark windows 8.1 industry pro embedded os and the upgrade wasnt offered.

kept 7, made a small 10 partition for muh gaems if/when dx12 becomes relevant

My Windows machine is still on 8.1. But it hasn't been booted in over a year, so I doubt I'll miss the purported chewey deliciousness that is Win10.

When Microsoft's asshattery became blatant last year I finally made the decision to move the last remnants of my home computing environment over to OpenBSD.

>>55831819
I'm still on 8.1. My laptop is having power and temperature issues and I intend to replace it soon. It just seemed like an unwarranted risk to make changes to the OS when I'm not going to benefit from it for very long.

>w10 literally takes twice as long to boot than w7
uninstalling this shit, fucking spyware bloats the pc too much

>>55831819
Well anon, i reseted my PC two days ago and guess what? I pick W8.1.

Tbh you guys helped me a lot about it since i don't want a piece of botnet and adOS running in here.

So, thank you?!

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Fuck the haters and fuck PajeetSoft

>>55831828
I have a piece of shit HP Pavilion DV6, the only reason I did not throw it away is running torrents from it. Absolutely no reason to upgrade, and it will run Ubuntu well if the time comes.

>>55831911

Enjoy your USB 2.0

t. 8.1 enlightened mustard race

>calling programs "apps"

will never fucking use windows 10 downloading a copy of 7 (with cancerous updates already disabled) for my new computer now

>>55835843
Tried for most of the free period to update, never fucking worked. Some meaningless error that I could never figure the cause of, error 80240031. Nothing I could find online would work.
Finally near the end, the update worked, then somehow they fucked up my wired connection.
Works for 2 minutes, then "default gateway not available", and the automatic repair just kept disabling then enabling the port, so it would work for 2 minutes and fail, then repeat.
Went back to 8.1 and it works fine.
If it was a wireless driver I could understand, but the fucking wired connect?
Holy shit microsoft, get your shit together.

>>55831828
Even if you paid me I still wouldn't "upgrade" to 10.

I switched from 7 to 10 on the 28th and so far I hate it. There are so many small things which bug me, and the Windows Explorer is so fucking shit.

>Having to press a button to bring up the password entry for login, and that slight delay from bringing it up to actually being able to type your password.
>Details pane which used to be along the bottom of Windows Explorer is now merged with the previews pane on the right. You can't have both, it's either/or.
>Can't remove the "Documents/Music/Videos/etc." folders on the left.
>Can't remove the OneDrive shortcut even though I don't use it.
>Can't rearrange jump lists.
>Default photo viewer is a pile of shit which doesn't even respond to my mouse forward/back buttons.

How the fuck do you remove useful things which were in a previous version of Windows? I'm sure even fucking Vista didn't have any of these issues.

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upgraded once using a separate hard drive just to keep the free lincese if i will to install it after 2020, until then long live windows 7.

after i finished the upgrade and booting up for the first time, it automatically started to get updates and drivers without even a warning or something, this is quite shit, if i have a laptop which come with drivers specially made from the manufacturer i have to uninstall all auto-installed drivers by this retarded OS to install those.

>>55836100
Oh dear. He may have to install manufacturer provided drivers. Much effort.

>>55831979
THIS. Everyone is fucking retarded.
1. Use M$ Windows 10 Media Creation Tool, use on flash drive or iso -> dvd
2.
If running legitimate COA, install spare drive and run upgrade, putting in your product key for 7 or 8 or 8.1. (Alternatively, backup existing drive, upgrade from within windows or do spare install)
If running cracked, backup your live OS partition(s), run the upgrade media from within Windows.
3. Go through the OOBE, check system properties, ensure it is activated
4. Revert to backup or switch to your ordinary drives from step 2.
5. Whenever you feel like it, do the upgrade or fresh install whenever the hell you want.

Everyone is so fucking retarded about this.

>>55831828
then i buy a 20 $ oem

I went back to 7 after making a W10 clean install disc for possible future use. I forgot to check if it said activated with digital entitlement though, but I assume I'm fine if I didn't see a not activated message on the corner of my desktop?

>>55836502
Usually if it connected to the internet it is usually good to go.

>>55836297
Windows will push manufacturer approved drivers retard. It always has.

>>55831819
>windows 10 for $10 in three months

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>>55831828
>They will have fun paying 100 bucks in a couple years when their OS is fully obsolete.

>They don't have DreamSpark

>>55831819
I wanted to upgrade. I really did.
Unfortunately, Windows 10 didn't want to activate. The Software Protection Service wouldn't start, and it wouldn't even show me a product ID.
Wouldn't even give me an installation ID for phone activation.

A piece of shit.

>>55836297
but it installs latest whql drivers available for anything
only thing it may mess up is gpu drivers and audio drivers but you can remove those cleanly

>>55836650
what? millions of pirates everywhere could do it, and you I assume with proper version couldn't?

>>55836683
Yep. Genuine W7 and everything.
Guess Microshit didn't want me.

>>55831819
I didn't. Windows 7 all day. Everyday.

>>55836665
>but it installs latest whql drivers available for anything
No it doesn't. It installed 10 month old Nvidia Drivers. I had to install the newest one from the Nvidia web page.

I upgraded a couple of days ago just to check it out, feels exactly like windows 7 to me just a bit prettier.

I dual boot with linux and just use windows when I absolutely need to though, which is pretty much never.

I turned microsoft updates off a few months ago when I heard they were sneaking things in that way, but somehow today I still have that little icon in my tray saying updates are ready. I worry they're going to force it anyway

Are there any good arguments against only using Linux that doesn't involve games? Because I've been using only Linux for half a decade now and I've had zero issues with doing so.

>>55838006
The way you phrase your post means nothing will convince you otherwise.
But ease of use is a huge reason not to use linux in general.

>>55838099

I don't need convincing. I'm going to keep on using it. I'm just curious about what other people's reasons are. Ease of use isn't an issue for me because I know how to use it.

>>55835583
I dont thing your win 10 EDU key will bind to the specific system since it is not OEM licence nor upgrade.

I tried w10 out, but it sucked so I upgraded back to windows 7

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>>55839387
>being this new
ツ

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>tfw even if I dont upgrade to windows 10 today, ill have to update within the next few years when new windows editions come out and windows 7 becomes unsupported with new games/software.

Please tell me after windows 10 they will learn their lesson and go back to the old format. Please /g/

Still on 8.1 because my GPU doesn't support DX12 and I see no other benefits to upgrading.
Also I can still upgrade to windows 10 whenever I want thanks to dreamspark.

>>55831819
i use mostly linux for general purpose computing jobs, i do have one laptop with win7 and it got immunized with never10, i would not even have a windows anywhere if not for Linux sucking ass in the ham radio SDR department, somebody needs to build HDSDR for Linux!!!

http://www.hdsdr.de/

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>>55831819

Win7 Master Race (;

>>55831857
Thats my plan

>>55831819
i upgraded to linux.

>>55831857

But my video games.

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>>55831857

Don't worry I'm switching to Linux everything will be fine :/

>>55832918
>fuck up debian cause i haven't updated it in a year and apt-get wouldn't install anything
Nice meme, you don't have to pretend that you have ever used Debian before. If you picked the stable release you should be good unless you picked the outgoing lts version.
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

>>55831857
>linux
Sure, as soon as the OS supports simple shit like recent hardware drivers, games and Adobe products.

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>>55831857
I already jumped from 7 to ganoo slash leenoox, really wished I've done it sooner.

Didn't update.
Stopped dual booting.
Can't remember the last time I've booted into windows anyway.
Pure linux bliss

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Really surprised at the amount of people that still are putting up with Microsoft's bullshit after the shitfest that is Windows 10. Being public about mining data should have been an instant red flag to switch to another operating system. Seeing people panic over their updates, downloading placebo anti telemetry software, and just giving up embracing the botnet is pretty bad. I don't play much vidya anymore aside from emulation, so I went ahead and tried ganoo slash leenoox. It was frustrating at first since I've been desensitized to M$, but I ended up loving it. Windows is fucking garbage, holy shit everything is better here. If anything you can go even further beyond and make a Windows KVM so that it can live on the corner of your drive. You would keep the nice OS that is ganoo slash leenoox and have your gaymes and other software on M$ as well.

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still on 7. I already got a copy of W10 for when I'm changing my mobo (paid it 13 bucks). I probably won't 'upgrade' until it's absolutely necessary

>>55835309
>Mentally
Nice to know if I have a stroke and start wanting to put Windows 10 on my computer I still can.

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>>55831828
If I pirated win 7 what's stopping me from pirating win 10?

Oh wait, nothing!

>>55841526
The inevitable subscription system. Have fun with that.

>>55840141
Vulkan Should be a thing by then.

>>55841537
>Implying I will be forced to use windows
>Implying there aren't methods to "send your operating system back in time" using recoveries.
>implying all my data is installed on my OS partition.

You are not a very smart guy are you?

I'm on Windows 7. I don't plan to upgrade, until I build my new computer. I'm fine with my current set-up (old, but it runs everything I need).

>>55841574
Nah, it sounds like a hassle being alert of your OS at all times. As already said, have fun with that.

>>55831819
I still use 7, I don't see the reason to upgrade when the only reason I have a windows partition anymore is for the occasional game or program that doesn't run in Wine or have a Linux alternative.

I'm on 8.1 (that came with the computer) because of muh gayman but that's literally the last version of windows I'll ever use. I didn't fall for their """""""""""free""""""""""" upgrade and when the time comes for me to actually upgrade I'll finally make the move to GNU. Probably Devuan or something, because linux is also going to shit with this system.d bullshit.

>>55831819
My laptop is 7 years old, why bother. By the time 2020 is here, Window 7 Second Edition will be released.

>>55842962
It's cute that you believe that.

>>55842985

MS is going to have to split Windows into a 10 style "spy & advertise" for normies and 7 style "just do as your told" for professions, power users, and privacy freaks.

>>55839737
>Please tell me after windows 10 they will learn their lesson

The lesson they will learn is
>selling user data makes WAY more money than selling licenses did
and
>when you have market share, you can get away with murder

Why would they ever go back?

>>55832601
the world runs on video gaymes

>>>/v/

>>55843043
It will probably turn into a free UWP only version for consumers and an expensive pro version that can use win32 programs but costs $100 a month to rent.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/07/29/swiftkey-sharing-users-phone-numbers-email-addresses-strangers/

Good job microsoft
And people poo pooed me when I got rid of swiftkey the second Microsoft took over and pushed a day 1 update.

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>>55831857
>actually believing people would move to an OS without any software at all

>>55831819
I didn't. My hardware is not supported by Windows 10.

>tfw you just finished installing xubuntu

ayy lmaso

>>55843265
>OS without any software at all
Dumb shitposter.

>>55843043
>7 style "just do as your told" for professions, power users, and privacy freaks.
I'm sorry you believe that, anon. M$ is going to buttfuck everyone and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>55831999
mainstream still gets updates just like companies
they just only get security updates.

>>55831857
This is the truth. Honestly

>>55831819
I'm still on 8.1 throughout the house. I have licenses for 10, but I'm waiting after Server 2016 has been out for a few months before I take the jump.

linux primary computing laptop/win7 gaming desktop master race

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Did you really think Microshit will stop giving it away for free?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade?tduid=%2897dd063e7a1cb5c790857775a73ae367%29%28259740%29%282542549%29%28d_wp%29%28%29

>>55835495
You should have just set it to manual, if you are incapable of researching patches and selectively installing only those that are beneficial then maybe you should use Win10.

>>55838006
Only other justifiable reason is that you may need to play around with Server and Windows VMs to stay fresh.

>>55845142
When Microsoft wanted more than 1 billion users of Windows 10, I was really hoping they would allow pirates to upgrade to a genuine copy of Windows 10.

Like China and India overnight would become genuine Windows 10 users and add 2 billion users to the Windows 10 ecosystem.

Why didn't Microsoft do this?

>>55845327
Because they're idiots, that's why.

>>55831828
Kill yourself

>>55831857
>this is what freetards believe

>>55831857
>Everyone

lol

>>55831828
>paying for os
lol wtf why wouldnt we just grab a cracked copy like most of us are already doing with win 7?

Group Policy will be back for all, same as the registry edit, you will just have to buy the optional Microsoft® Windows 10 © Control Service Pack 1 ™ and suscribe to the Adds-free Windows Service™© using the feature app* from Microsoft® Store with your personal Microsoft® Account.

*not available for Microsoft® Windows 10© upgraded licences and OEM licences.

im still on 7, but miss xp

>>55845327
But they did, dumbass. You can "upgrade" from a pirated 7 to a legit 10.

The problem is, 10 is shit.
It also has higher system requirements so it won't work as well with older PCs.

>>55831819
Seven4Life

I'm going to build a pc soon, what Windows version would you recommend me to install on it? I'm tempted to install Windows 7 Starter on it, simply because I'll be playing a bit of old games. How much is Windows 7 these days?

>>55831828
>They will have fun paying
>Paying
KEK

Linux is love,
Linux is life.
I only use W7 for some games. When the update for "get free W10" message arrived, I uninstalled it and never got a message about W10 since. And I dont really care.

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>>55831819

>>55831999
No, the extended Win 7 support is certainly /NOT/ over. Work for a company who just a year ago moved from XP to Win 7 on its fleet of 100k PC's. We are good for several years.