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My oscilloscope runs Windows 7 so I get a daily reminder how beautiful unencumbered Windows is. No ads, no layers of pig lipstick, and it's still snappy and cri
by schmidtleonard 2y ago
My oscilloscope runs Windows 7 so I get a daily reminder how beautiful unencumbered Windows is. No ads, no layers of pig lipstick, and it's still snappy and crisp even though the machine is 13 years old. If it weren't for weird compatibility issues (Chrome complains IIRC), I'd run Windows 7 at home in a heartbeat.
- conradfr 2y agoChrome and Firefox are not updated anymore but Firefox has an ESR with updates.
- jwells89 2y agoGot that reminder a couple of months ago when doing a fresh 7 install on an old Core 2 Quad workstation laptop. It’s very clean and “quiet” compared to modern Windows, and though its visual style isn’t exactly fresh I don’t think it exactly looks dated either when used on good modern IPS panel monitor. It’s aged much better than XP did. Wouldn’t ever dare to take that machine online but there’s no reason why it couldn’t serve as a unitasker of some kind.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoThere is legacyupdate.net and 0patch.com
- segasaturn 2y ago7 really is the last relic from a lost time. I had to use an old 7 workstation and remembered how good it feels to search for a file in the Start Menu and not get a full page of bing search results, news and ads. Modern Windows has become a bizarre homunculus of all of the tech industry's worst instincts (adtech, endless scrolling news feeds, mass surveillance)
- wvenable 2y agoTo this day I configure all my machines to look and act like Windows 7 with a combination of tweaks and 3rd party applications.