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Windows 7 (Pro/Ultimate) will probably remain the least bad Windows ever released. Shame.

• quantified 3y ago
  When it's as good as it can be, any change makes it worse.
  • transcriptase 3y ago
    Precisely why I’m on a Windows 10 install that hasn’t been updated in nearly 2 years. “yes but those updates contain security patches!” If three letter agencies or foreign state sponsored hackers want my Baldur’s Gate 3 save files that bad, they can have them. Otherwise I’m not installing Linkin_Park_Numb.mp3.exe or raw dogging Russian URLs in my spam folder so it’s tough to care. Bitdefender tells me when something tries to send a packet or if a exe changes.
    • pxmpxm 3y ago
      All the CVE bros just fainted reading this
      • deleted 3y ago
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    • bobmaxup 3y ago
      > If three letter agencies or foreign state sponsored hackers want my Baldur’s Gate 3 save files that bad, they can have them. > Otherwise I’m not installing Linkin_Park_Numb.mp3.exe or raw dogging Russian URLs in my spam folder so it’s tough to care. I doubt you are, but you may be unaware how many online games have vulnerabilities. There are many avenues to malware.
• hypeatei 3y ago
  I miss Windows 7 so much. Apart from the slightly dated, although not bad UI, it would hold up just fine today if they didn't abandon it. No junkware pre-installed, consistent settings interfaces (not three ways to configure a setting), and no telemetry or dark patterns.
  • kyleee 3y ago
    I came to love aero as well
    • dralley 3y ago
      Somehow it was snappier, on older hardware, then the flat monocolor designs that followed it.
  • M95D 3y ago
    > and no telemetry Wrong. Look in Scheduled Tasks.
• RajT88 3y ago
  With a bit of work to nerf some of the telemetry and dumb stuff, I liked 10 as much as 7. I won't say you're wrong. Windows 10: From my Cold, Dead Hands.
• JohnFen 3y ago
  Win 7 is the only version of Windows that I think is actually good.