Downgrade Rejoice Thread

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Still on 7, dont have much reason for 10...yet

>>57445144
if you go back from win10 to win7 it's actually an upgrade

>>57445144
Using xp here

never "upgraded"
still on 7

For a game, yes.

Not I. I love me some Gears of War, and I can't play on PC unless I'm on win10 because Microsoft is a bunch of faggots that like to force operating systems on gay ass faggots like me who love to gayme.

>>57445144
>professional
"down"grade to ultimate here =^)

>>57445144
>implying I ever upgraded anything except a testing machine

I upgraded to GNU/Linux

You guys delusional? 10 is jut a reskin of 8 which was a reskin of 7 which was a reskin of vista.

Went back to win98
There is literally no reason to upgrade

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>>57445266
And 80% of linux distros are just the same kernel and packages with a different desktop environment. Get a life, fanboy.

>>57445144
>downgraded

>>57445144
I wish I could downgrade VM, however Windows 7 doesn't support OVMF/UEFI properly so I can't use my GPU passthrough setup on it. Thus I'm stuck with Win 8 or higher.

Yes I downgraded to 7 somewhere in September and it's perfect for me. Not gonna bother with W10 again until 7 stops being supported

>>57445225
>playing AAA games in 2016
>letting MS cuck you with W10 and DX12 exclusivity
You know, the reason Vista failed was because it sucked and no one wanted to install it just for Halo 2. Now they're doing the same thing and apparently succeeding because of fags like you

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>>57445144
>tfw just downgraded two days ago

I would but my 7 professional key doesn't work anymore as it was upgraded to 8 and then 10.

Can't be bothered to use activators, that's fishy shit.

>>57445208
this

>>57445144
I can't get Windows 7 to install on my m.2 so I'm stuck with 8.1. Yes I tried all the secure boot settings and shit

>>57445144
How can you stand installing updates for it? Shit takes hours.

>>57445698
http://wu.krelay.de/en/

7 is too solid, don't see myself upgrading anytime soon.

>>57445298
>98
You better be using SE

I was hyped once Windows 10 was released. Then I found out it was shit.

I went back to 7 the day I upgraded to Windows 10. I'll wait another 6 years to check out Windows 10 again.

>>57446094
>Then I found out it was shit.
t. Freetard

>Enjoy your botnet
>Enjoy Microshit stealing your data
>Enjoy your proprietary software
>Enjoy being forced to configure your computer to turn off updates
Saved you the keystrokes of bothering to respond with that crap.

>wincucks need to downgrade to upgrade

Loving every laugh

>>57446079
FE is more stable on Pentium1 hardware

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>>57445298
I went back to 95.
Not regretting it.

8.1 is better.

I upgraded to GNU/Linux and a game console a long time ago.

>Was running win7
>Got new SSD, installed win8 on it
>SSD failed, had to send it back
>no more win8
Somehow, it worked out great

>>57445144
I have win10 on a cheap tablet, I like it because I can use it like a laptop without the restrictions of most tablets but I don't understand how windows 10 is meant to be tablet friendly yet you can't switch off the screen without it stopping whatever your listening too.
My win 7 PC will never downgrade to 10 for a long time yet.

>>57446531
Post comfy desktop

7 is a douchebag. 10 is terrified of 7. 7 ate 9

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>>57445144
me too

>>57445144
>Who else downgraded?
Memerica

>>57445144
thought about doing this today

Why? What's the point of delaying the inevitable? You will have to switch to 10 at some point, just like using 98 is not viable anymore, 7 won't be either.

>>57445233
Professional is the best one you pleb
Ultimate is like a pizza with EVERY TOPPING

>>57446121
Yeah, yeah. Choke on it.

i would love to have 7 back, but don't have energy to downgrade and no updates after 2020

>>57445373
>You know, the reason Vista failed was because it sucked and no one wanted to install it just for Halo 2.
Gamers had jack shit to do with Vista failing.

>>57448712
To stick it to the man. I am a rebel.

>>57446114
#rekt
luddites and freetards are irrelevant

>>57448918
If anyone's responsible, it would be the hardware manufacturers that refused to make drivers for it.

>>57445144
Never 'upgraded', but Win 10's single monitor DPI scaling is starting to look attractive to me. And the potential to integrate my laptop into my main system via their continuum shit.

Is there anything similar on Win 7 for both of these things? I don't want to downgrade to 10.

>>57445144
I went back like a month ago and no regrets. Performance on W7 is slightly better. The whole UI is better. DX12 is only detrimental in the games that are out so far. Everything works properly. It's really refreshing once you suffered W10 for months.

>>57445144
>Pro
>not ultimate
lmao

>>57445144
My custom build is on win 7 no need to go to 10

>>57445251
Same

Considering downgrading.
Do you need to do any additional things for SSDs on Windows 7?

>>57449721
fuck off

>>57449721
Fuck off Trumpette, go back to jacking off to your God emperor.

>>57449721
>4chan
>unironically being against child love

>>57449721
>can't into tech so once again tries to enlist /g/
fucking subhuman kys

7 a best

>>57448712
Only if you let them force you. Someone or something tries to do that, stop using their services. Teach them you don't roll with this shit.

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>>57446868

>>57449739
/pol/ isnt 4chan. Think that has been settled past year.

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>>57449661
>ultimate
Ha!

>>57450768
No photoshop
No DAW
No Office


> Just upgraded

>>57445144
I bought my Yoga with Windows 10 pre-installed and it was a pain in the ass to "downgrade", but it works beautifully now
Main OS is still Ubuntu though

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Still on Windows 7. Dunno what I'll do once support ends.

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>>57449710
Not at all, everything just werks. I'm on a Crucial MX300 with windows 7. If TRIM isn't activated for some weird reason you can always enable it via cmd.

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>win7masterrace \m/

>>57449912

wallpaper without the cartoon looking girl please?

8.1 is fine. No memes. No telemetry update.

Install classic shell. Never hit Ctrl Windows if you don't want to be triggered.

I love the flat look honestly. I was not a big fan of the idea of 8.1 until I tried it. Now I can't go back to Win 7.

Also seems to work better with a few different videogames too.

>>57451938
I feel the same way with Win10.
I can't live without task view for some reason.
Every time I hit WIN+TAB on 7 my brain goes into a panic for a split second until I realize what's going on.

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>>57445144
I never downgraded to Winblows 10 to begin with..

>>57452300
It would actually be a downgrade for W7u to W10Pro since you lose some enterprise features such as Applocker.

why would u be regressive... upgrade, evolve and adapt.

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>>57445144
Did a fresh install of 8.1 in early 2015, disabled updates, still running rock stable despite my abuse. 7 is alright though.

>>57451659
it's called anime dad

>>57451938
>Also seems to work better with a few different videogames too.
What's fun, the reason I dropped Win8.1 was it worked worse with older games.

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>>57445144
Spent six days on Windows 10 Enterprise before nuking it and reinstalling 7. Everything just works, buttery smooth and not a single crash or freeze. Task View is really nice but that's pretty much the only good thing about 10. Everything else is pure shit, from the inconsistent icons to the constant 3-second freezes where even the mouse and keyboard stop responding.

>>57453830
install dexpot if you want virtual workspaces and task view-like features

>>57454062
Thanks, I'll look into that!

>>57452754
>not using a bad product is regressive
>using a new but bad product is evolving and adapting
t. black science man

>>57450040
>N edition
Do things break because of the lack of media prerequisites?

>>57449912
>vlc
>chrome

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Does 7 have some problems with large RAM?

I upgraded from 8 to 32GB and since then I get ntoskrnl.exe "irq not less or equal" bluescreens in the first 30 minutes the PC is running.

Ran Memtest several times but found nothing.

>>57455644
>Corrupt system files
>Incompatible device drivers
>Faulty hardware items
>Incorrect software installation
Oh and >>>/SQT/

>>57445144
I only used Windows 10 for an hour before upgrading back to 7.

>>57455644
Those are usually driver issues. Update.

I've been on Win7 for the past month and a half.
was running 10 but issues started coming up and than i gave up on it

>>57455644
you probably have mismatced ram sticks
I had the same issue when I tried using some sticks that where 1333mhz and 1600mhz.
the 1333mhz did not like using the 800mhz bus speed, and the 1600mhz ram did not like using the 666mhz bus speed.
not sure on the exact numbers, but it was something with the base clock + multiplier and the ram sticks not liking it.
I went from 4x4gb mixed to 2x4gb + 1x8gb all matching ram and I haven't had any issues since

>>57445144
I'm sorry to hear that you have a PC old enough to let you use Win7.

>>57445144
Downgraded? I never fell for the 10 meme in the first place. I haven't even got that nagging app because I have updated disabled(like any sane pirate).

>>57457475
That doesn't work like you intended

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>>57445144
I never left 7.

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until 2020 :^)

If I were to install 7 right now, how could I prevent it from updating itself to 10?

Does it still do that, now that the "free" period is over?

>>57445144
I tried 10, but it's still beta tier at this point.
No reason to use it unless you love tinkering with your OS, but then you might as well use some Linux distro.

>>57457818
It doesn't do that anymore, but there's also a GP/registry setting to prevent it, just in case.

>>57457827
>It doesn't do that anymore, but there's also a GP/registry setting to prevent it, just in case.
so I should be able to update it to whatever the latest updates are without worrying about 10?

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>>57445144
I upgraded my Windows 7 to Ubuntu 14.04 about a year ago.
Never even looked back since then.

Start with Linux Mint or Ubuntu and you'll understand, trust me.
Then you might try Debian, Arch (or Manjaro), etc. and you'll never need Windows again.

I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?

If you start using GNU/Linux, you'll see the truth: That you are a slave, Anon.
Like everyone else you were born into bondage.
Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch.
A prison for your mind.

This is your last chance.
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the Windows pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the GNU/Linux pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

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1. If you choose the Windows pill, stay in this thread - DEAD END

2. If you choose the GNU/Linux pill, continue to >>57455336

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>>57445144
>they're willingly downgrading to a 7-year old OS
I'd call you mentally ill but then again people still use windows XP

>>57457894
>Like everyone else you were born into bondage.
I'm into that

>>57457916
Ignorance is bliss, huh?

>>57457924
No, S&M is my fetish

>>57457894
My laptop's speakers sound like shit on any Linux distro, because there's special IDT software on windows that make them sound tolerable

pretty much the only reason I'm sticking with Windows

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>>57457926
>No, S&M is my fetish

>>57457940
>My laptop's speakers sound like shit on any Linux distro, because there's special IDT software on windows that make them sound tolerable

What distros did you try?

>>57457968
Ubuntu (& deratives), Fedora, OpenSUSE

Thing is I know it's in the IDT software, because they sound like shit on Windows before I install it

>>57457940
you need more proprietary things in yo life
maybe get a coffee machine that only accepts certain brand of beans

>>57445195

Came here to post this. Never bothered with Win8 or Win10.

>>57457975
I think coffee is disgusting, so I'm good, thx

>>57457973
You should try Arch.
I suggest to install it with Antergos (it's Arch + Numix icons).

While I started with Ubuntu, I also tried Arch and some says it has better drivers.
Antergos was really comfy, by the way.

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>>57457991
I don't think you understand

The sound works, but it sounds like shit because IDT didn't make their drivers for Linux, so the OS doesn't utilize the IDT hardware in the laptop

>>57458006
Oh, I see.

Unfortunately I'm no expert on this, but maybe some hardcore Gnu/Linux user at /fglt/ could solve your problem - who knows?

I updated to Windows 7 Ultimate just yesterday. Then I updated to SP 1.

>>57458018
meh, it's fine, I'll just be more careful in a couple of years when I buy a new laptop

>tfw free Windows 7 through my uni
feels good man

>>57453086

wallpaper with the anime dad please?

Downgraded from Xenial to Trusty. No systemd anymore. Feels Goodman.

>>57458765
Funny thing is, I unironically did the same.
Xenial was still unstable anyway.

>>57445144
why do you upgrade when a new thingy is released anyway?

you look like my normie friends that wanted MS offices 20XX as soon as it was announced, myself i never went beyond 2003 until XML came around and i jumped to FOSS options

i bet you read IT news to read about blazing new features browser version 123 will bring.

>>57445341
you mean to have windows as guest to linux host?

so on laptops from 2014+ we cant do that anymore?

"luckily" im still on a 2013 laptop

>>57445225
supporting with your wallet faggots who develops games to closed-garden graphical APIs


btw how is microsoft so successful with this directX thing?
the are so incompetent in everything else (maybe good with excel and word too perhaps)

getting manufacturers to implement it, why isnt openGL or something else capable of exeuting the same features on the hardware GPU ?

is something hardcoded on the firmware?

>mum buys a brand new laptop with FREE trial of a billion different shitty bloatware programs
>also has windows 10
>pc takes about 5 minutes to boot out of the box
>figure it's because of all the shit so i remove the lot
>boot time improves slightly
>find out that just after booting for about 10 minutes win10 is using 100% disk for whatever fucking reason and so nothing will respond
>there's no fix so far that's worked so i just sent my mum on a nostalgia trip back to XP
bonus being i dont have to teach her how to use the stupid tablet pc tiles shit

I don't see any difference between 10 and 7 besides interface and the fact that now there's 3 control panels instead of one

>>57457987
missing the joke this bad

he meant that note the chipset manufacturer and dont buy that in the future

IDT = intel audio ?

>>57459104
>one
*two

>>57459097
>so i just sent my mum on a nostalgia trip back to XP

I kek'd

>>57445698
How many retards are going to say this?

I downgraded from 7 to Vista. It's never given me any problems and does what I want it to do. 7 didn't.

>>57460756
But it is ending support very soon though. You may as well use XP (with 2019 update mod)

>>57460756
But why?

>>57460836
that doesn't mean it will suddenly stop working
>>57460884
i just explained why

I'd love to downgrade however, the USB support for skylake processors is apparently bullshit

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>>57461146
But why?

>>57446121
i use linux, but don't pretend that every distro ever hasn't broken somebody's computer upon upgrading

>>57446121
See >>57458765

>>57445144
Why? Because of the Windows 10 meme? I thought about downgrading (after having problems that turned out to be because of a corrupted install rather than le Winblows) just one time only to realize that my main PC is "too new" to support 7. Maybe you should just buy a new PC or switch to MacOS or Linux if you so want to be an edgy cool kid.

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>freshly installed Windows 7
>600 MB RAM while idle
>freshly installed Windows 10
>1.3 GB

W10 faggots will defend this

>>57462338
Lmao dude use your computer. I'll never get people that use a WM that only uses 20mb of ram. Literally WHY. All I miss from W7 days is ricing.

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>>57462338
>600 MB is small

My Windows XP mail server would like to have a word with you.

(and before someone points it out, it always says PF usage. It has no pagefile at all.)

>>57446079
>SE
enjoy your bloat

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>>57445144
I upgraded to Linux Mint.

>>57448827
is home premium pineapple pizza then?

>>57457894
People don't download Linux because it's faster or more practical than Windows, they download it because they like fucking around with otherwise simple processes.

Linux users are like gearheads who would prefer spending $500 on a rustbucket that will sit in a $50k home workshop, so they can show us their drill press, arc welder, and hydraulic lift, and talk all about how spending 40 hours a week fixing a salvaged car is actually saving them money and how people who don't do this aren't "getting the most out of their car".

I don't care, I don't want to spend hours fucking with a simple problem, because unpacking things is ALWAYS a new problem, instead of just running a 5mb executable on Windows. I just want it to work while giving me software options, and Linux just doesn't work when you want to use it for something straightforward.

>>57445144

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04714314

Windows 10 broke my HP printer drivers that I need for work last month. Then windows update itself stopped working and keeps breaking on their stupid definition update for windows defender even after using the windows update tool to fix the updater/clear the old file. Can't skip that update either because MS doesn't allow you to pick and choose updates in 10.

Don't know if they fixed it since then but fuck them anyway.

Now I'm back on Windows 7, but I haven't updated with the new shitty monthly rollups yet because no one seems to be discussing how to unfuck them from telemetry and other bullshit here.

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windows 7 is trash lmao

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>>57451146
Continue loving her until her final moments, just like you did with XP

>>57462851
Linux is a kernel, tech illiterate.

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>>57464564

>>57464564
XP is not entirely dead till 2019, since there is Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 and Windows Embedded Standard 2009.

Also there are variants of Windows 7 that ends support late 2021(july?) such as Windows Thin PC. No exceptions for Windows 8 though.

>>57464609
All distros are equally terrible and you can't just run executables to install anything. Something's always missing and hardware drivers are frequently buggy on Linux. I don't have the time or patience to put together a puzzle every time I want to install a new program or reconfigure my wireless card.

Windows 7 user here. Still got two machines running xp. I've no plans to move to windows ten. I don't care about the support cut off date. long as my a/v provider and browser provider support 7 I'm good.

>>57451348
Post #15?