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Is it still possible to use Windows 7 on a home PC or laptop and have mostly normal functionality with regular software and etc? Or Windows 8? Serious question.
by helloworld11 5y ago
Is it still possible to use Windows 7 on a home PC or laptop and have mostly normal functionality with regular software and etc? Or Windows 8? Serious question. I'd still prefer to avoid Linux (for now) but the Windows 11 nonsense is too much.
- Silhouette 5y agoUp to a point, yes. We still have a couple of Windows 7 machines in use, partly due to having some expensive application software locked to them. But as time passed and more of the ecosystem moved on, the limitations really started to show. As software developers, Windows 7 would now be very limited in terms of running modern tools and the latest versions of major programming languages and Linux or Mac are much better platforms today unless you're developing specifically for the Microsoft ecosystem.