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#6195878
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I do miss Windows 7. You could make it so simple and clean while retaining that old school Windows look. Windows 10 is really good also, and I'm gonna use it as long as I can.
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Conan The Barbarian:

I do miss Windows 7. You could make it so simple and clean while retaining that old school Windows look. Windows 10 is really good also, and I'm gonna use it as long as I can.
I truly understand ya man. The simple clean interface and familiarity makes the experience very comfortable. Thanks to @Cave Waverider I'm now using Windows 11. He pushed me off the edge and he hang glide with me to safety. Lol. It's not bad and it's great for HDR and Audio. I have to get used to customizing things the way I like. Lol!
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Conan The Barbarian:

I do miss Windows 7. You could make it so simple and clean while retaining that old school Windows look. Windows 10 is really good also, and I'm gonna use it as long as I can.
I'm using Windows 11 with Startallback and I don't miss anything about Windows 10. Of course, everyone uses it differently, but that's my experience.
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Conan The Barbarian:

I do miss Windows 7. You could make it so simple and clean while retaining that old school Windows look. Windows 10 is really good also, and I'm gonna use it as long as I can.
last version of windows with a single unified interface style..
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Unless embedded Chrome is hard-coded to not work on older versions of Windows, I don't really see why this would be the reason they're doing this. This is especially true since they could just swap to embedded Chromium (which now that I mention it - why don't they use this?). In any case, it'll be interesting to see the OS statistics next month. From what I recall, China is a big user of Windows 7.
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schmidtbag:

Unless embedded Chrome is hard-coded to not work on older versions of Windows, I don't really see why this would be the reason they're doing this. This is especially true since they could just swap to embedded Chromium (which now that I mention it - why don't they use this?). In any case, it'll be interesting to see the OS statistics next month. From what I recall, China is a big user of Windows 7.
That's interesting to know. I had no idea that so many people in China were still using Windows 7.
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Yeah, I'm going to be that person: When extended support for Windows 7 expired in Jan 2020 I swore to switch over to Linux on my next major hardware upgrade, which, reasonably, happened in Jan 2020. I had some experience with Linux from dabbling over the decades, but now it was a cold switch. The first few years were a bit rocky due to pebkac and system instability. Turns out the CPU from the major upgrade was flaky and unstable from day one, and only became worse until a year ago when it finally soiled itself. After switching that out I've had a rock-solid experience. No messing with drivers, fast system updates, stuff works.
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schmidtbag:

Unless embedded Chrome is hard-coded to not work on older versions of Windows, I don't really see why this would be the reason they're doing this. This is especially true since they could just swap to embedded Chromium (which now that I mention it - why don't they use this?).
Chromium 110+ requires kernel exports that are not available to 7 and 8.1 Steam's currently available package for 7 and 8 will continue to function for the time being, people may not be aware, but the CEF package for steam has always been OS specific. bins_cef_win32_win7-64.zip.vz.7723ed5c1979346f2efcf0deab2f094771b0de91_68602947
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Time to move on, guys. No issues with Windows 11 whatsoever. Been using 1.5 year. Not a single blue screen, crash or weird behavior. Stable as a rock. The only annoyance was right click menu and taskbar, all of which was fixed by using StartAllBack. This is the best and most stable PC experience of my life.
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Still got Steam on my old Windows 7 rig, my back-up machine, it'll still work in offline mode id have thought.
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Rich_Guy:

Still got Steam on my old Windows 7 rig, my back-up machine, it'll still work in offline mode id have thought.
Just don't let it update.
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Imo, starting from Windows 98/98SE they are all very usable, some very good (XP, 2k, 7 and 10), but since Windows 10, there is no need for a "different/new version" except for an ARM specific, Microsoft could just give us updates and perhaps sell UI stuff to people who likes it.
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TheDeeGee:

Just don't let it update.
Theres nothing to update, no new cefwin7 packages will come through
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TheDigitalJedi:

That's interesting to know. I had no idea that so many people in China were still using Windows 7.
I just checked the December 2023 statistics and it seems China has already abandoned W7. I'm guessing they slowly shifted away once it reached EOL. I assuming they were such prominent users of it due to lighter resource consumption and being easy to pirate.
fredgml7:

Imo, starting from Windows 98/98SE they are all very usable, some very good (XP, 2k, 7 and 10), but since Windows 10, there is no need for a "different/new version" except for an ARM specific, Microsoft could just give us updates and perhaps sell UI stuff to people who likes it.
Despite being a devout Linux user, I never hated Windows 10 (or 8.1 for that matter), though I do feel the UI is the one thing about it that had significant flaws (if you ignore the issues caused by MS letting go of their QA team). The search/Cortana in the task bar was needlessly large and Settings was an incomplete and inconsistent mess of old and new.
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schmidtbag:

Despite being a devout Linux user, I never hated Windows 10 (or 8.1 for that matter), though I do feel the UI is the one thing about it that had significant flaws (if you ignore the issues caused by MS letting go of their QA team). The search/Cortana in the task bar was needlessly large and Settings was an incomplete and inconsistent mess of old and new.
I'm also a Linux user and professional, so dual boot here (different disks and bootloaders) . I use KDE+Debian on desktops. I know KDE is not the most praised UI out there, but still, I like it.
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fredgml7:

I'm also a Linux user and professional, so dual boot here (different disks and bootloaders) . I use KDE+Debian on desktops. I know KDE is not the most praised UI out there, but still, I like it.
I personally think KDE is the best. It has its flaws but in the past couple years, it has really grown to be a very solid UI. KF6 of course will cause some instabilities but thanks to Valve's contributions, they're crushing bugs at an incredible rate. For what it's worth, the KDE+Debian experience can be a little iffy, depending on which repo you use. KDE is a rather cutting-edge environment and Debian tries to keep things stable (which often just means "old").