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> Yesterday I received a Gigabyte Brix i5 and wanted to run Windows 7. The process was painful. Allow me to rephrase that: "Yesterday I received quite modern h
by josteink 10y ago
> Yesterday I received a Gigabyte Brix i5 and wanted to run Windows 7. The process was painful.
Allow me to rephrase that: "Yesterday I received quite modern hardware and wanted to run Ubuntu 9.04. The process was painful."
Would you sympathize with anyone who made such a claim? I certainly wouldn't. Does anyone even remember its "cute" codename? Nope. It's that old.
And Windows 7 is as old as Ubuntu 9.04. It's about as obsolete as it gets. It's time to let it go, man.
- einr 10y agoAnd Windows 7 is as old as Ubuntu 9.04. It's about as obsolete as it gets. It's time to let it go, man. Problem is, there's still no reasonable alternative if you need to run Windows software. Windows 7 is the last stand of Windows that doesn't actively hate and work against the user, so there are some very real reasons to stick with it. Hopefully when Windows 7 "extended support" runs out, ReactOS will be able to run Photoshop and Cubase so there is an escape route for those of us who still need to run legacy Windows applications. More likely it'll be Windows 7 with GPU passthrough in a sandboxed VM with no Internet connection forever.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoWhat's so unreasonable about Windows 10 that you prefer to suffer all that pain and get less out of your hardware?
- andai 10y agoActions speak louder than words. With Windows 10, Microsoft is basically saying, "f* you."
- andai 10y ago2020, Year of Reactos on the Desktop?
- ouid 10y agoClaiming that an operating system is obsolete because it is old is like complaining that hammers are obsolete because they are old.
- reacweb 10y agoI think Windows 7 SP1 (out in February 22, 2011) is closer to Ubuntu 11.04, but your point remains fully valid.