What should we do after January 2020

[RoWin7]

There no real disagreement here. Some members would take the time to tweak Win10, and others not. De gustibus non est disputandum. There's no arguing about tastes.

But the 2 threads offer a wealth of tips for those moving on to 10

 

[michael diemer]

In My opinion here is my list if you have add or adhd
Linux mint xfce 17.3 or below
Xubuntu 18.xx or above
Linux lite if installed by-itself on a primary partition.
The rest would take a learning curve including windows 10.

I heartily endorse all of those. I currently have Linux Lite on my computer. I also have Zorin 15, and I would add it to the list. But Mint is probably best for the first taste of Linux. then when the feet are wet, you can explore other distros. Be careful though, there are hundreds of them, and it's easy to fall into the distro-hopping trap.

 

[groze]

I heartily endorse all of those. I currently have Linux Lite on my computer. I also have Zorin 15, and I would add it to the list. But Mint is probably best for the first taste of Linux. then when the feet are wet, you can explore other distros. Be careful though, there are hundreds of them, and it's easy to fall into the distro-hopping trap.

I know this is a little off topic. I have i had issues with Linux mint xfce 18.x and Xubuntu 18.xx. It is easier to disable the issue on Xubuntu 18.xx then Linux mint xfce both are behaving like windows 10. Linux Mint is 18.xx forces a backup program on you-its not easy to get rid of and takes up resources and space. Xubuntu 18.xx doesn't force backups yet. However, Xubuntu 18.xx turns on unattended autoupdate right away but can easily be disabled after the first update. I am using Xubuntu 18 to post this.

Linux lite prefers primary partitions and has trouble with dual boot and doesn't work if installed on an extended partition. That would be best for a single computer with only one operating system. It could be my computers that cause this issue but I am not going to tweak it to work.

 

[Lance1]

There no real disagreement here. Some members would take the time to tweak Win10, and others not. De gustibus non est disputandum. There's no arguing about tastes.

But the 2 threads offer a wealth of tips for those moving on to 10

From the home user to big business rely on Windows in general. Latin! nice touch. My thread inderdust an option for some and not all and quite frankly beyond the average user so take that in account. You can guarantee that MS is on this so take advantage of this opportunity.

 

[RoWin7]

From the home user to big business rely on Windows in general. Latin! nice touch. My thread inderdust an option for some and not all and quite frankly beyond the average user so take that in account. You can guarantee that MS is on this so take advantage of this opportunity.

We can all interdust some covfefe ideas here. But I like your idea, and I've bookmarked it for such time as I'm railroaded into 10 for my online work.

Banyarola:
May "crock" be the worst thing your ideas are ever called.

Lance:
"This is when us gentleman need to exit the building Quickly!"
...aside from Lady F and me, you don't know how many of the posters aren't "gentlemen."

Ya know what I do with online arguments?
Bye.

 

[Miguel Castillo]

No doubt windows 7 is the best OS ever made by MS, if we compare with windows 10 is far better, no telemetry, no automatic updates, faster, and no Bloatware/Ads.


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Best.

 

[Melchior]

Its Windows 7 Forever more!! ^_^ lol

 

[daemonjax]

Continue to use win7 as usual.

The end of support doesn't affect me because I stopped installing updates after sp1.

The updates after sp1 are crap and not worth your time.

The only real reason to upgrade will be lack of support for newer hardware. That's up to hardware manufacturers, not Microsoft.

 

[Lance1]

Continue to use win7 as usual.

The end of support doesn't affect me because I stopped installing updates after sp1.

The updates after sp1 are crap and not worth your time.

The only real reason to upgrade will be lack of support for newer hardware. That's up to hardware manufacturers, not Microsoft.

I've come to the conclusion that Hewlett Packard, Acer, DELL and the like have no choice but to bow to the will of MS. Do you really think there systems will sell with a Linux OS onboard? Or Unix? Or any other OS for that fact. "Integrating Apple to their hardware would be a nightmare" And Apple would not go with a third party hardware vendor anyway. So the public in general has been programmed to run MS Windows and that's all they know. "Not Including The Tech World" Anyone that runs anything other then Windows IS THE MINORITY... "Including The Tech World" Apple and Windows may break even in all of this. But I'm not thinking so.. Windows $$ Apple $$$$$$ Linux! "free" "But there is a learning curve" You Choose.

 

[Melchior]

yeah and the updates they have been pushing out of late is lackluster...
in the sense that they are not really fixing much...

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

yeah and the updates they have been pushing out of late is lackluster...
in the sense that they are not really fixing much...

They break more than they fix.

 

[poorguy]

I might try Linux this year.

Impressive someone with a brain.

 

[organicgoose775]

I think Linux might be a good option for my next daily OS. I've used it since few years ago on my second computer, but didn't use it that much.

 

[maxseven]

I've been missing from sevenforums for a long time as Real Life kinda got in the way, but today I've come back and wanted to know what folks were saying about W7's impending EOL and this has been the best thread so far.

I must say that I stopped reading about midway as I've decided I'm with the ladies on this one. I have a W7Pro laptop that has worked well for some years now, that I move between our Summer and Winter homes, and which I have a backup for i.e. an identical twin that sits in wait of any hardware failure. I can see here that an upgrade to W10 is cheap (free) but...why? Why should I put myself through the "upgrade" process if everything works to my satisfaction, i.e. it ain't broke, so why should I fix it? I already practice safe computing, am not in any kind of situations where someone might pick me out of a crowd i.e. to hack into me.

I expect there'll come a time in the future where I'll need to upgrade this LAPTOP machine (a Dell Latitude i7) to some new platform I can't live without, and at that time I will no doubt be forced into some brave new MS world but heck it probably won't even be called 10 at that time. And in the meantime my wife has a W10 laptop (for fun) and I have an Intel Compute Stick with W10 that I haven't even deployed yet, so my skillset won't be left completely in the dust. But my current setup is comfortable so I'm gonna stick with it.

 

[nord899]

I've been missing from sevenforums for a long time as Real Life kinda got in the way, but today I've come back and wanted to know what folks were saying about W7's impending EOL and this has been the best thread so far.

I must say that I stopped reading about midway as I've decided I'm with the ladies on this one. I have a W7Pro laptop that has worked well for some years now, that I move between our Summer and Winter homes, and which I have a backup for i.e. an identical twin that sits in wait of any hardware failure. I can see here that an upgrade to W10 is cheap (free) but...why? Why should I put myself through the "upgrade" process if everything works to my satisfaction, i.e. it ain't broke, so why should I fix it? I already practice safe computing, am not in any kind of situations where someone might pick me out of a crowd i.e. to hack into me.

I expect there'll come a time in the future where I'll need to upgrade this LAPTOP machine (a Dell Latitude i7) to some new platform I can't live without, and at that time I will no doubt be forced into some brave new MS world but heck it probably won't even be called 10 at that time. And in the meantime my wife has a W10 laptop (for fun) and I have an Intel Compute Stick with W10 that I haven't even deployed yet, so my skillset won't be left completely in the dust. But my current setup is comfortable so I'm gonna stick with it.

Just joined the forum and have an old Dell D420 which runs Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit just fine and cannot update to Windows 10. I heard from a friend, that there is some European company that plans on providing updates to Windows 7 past the EOL date of January 2020. Any info on that would be much appreciated.

Thanks for listening.

N

 

[TechnoMage2016]

Nord899,
I love your angel in a snow storm Avatar! Very creative!

If for some totally weird reason, I had to give up my fabulous Windows 7 OS, I would certainly NOT turn to Linux, Linus, Ubuntu, or some other NON-MS compatible OS. And, I don't understand the rush from Win-7 to Win-10.... totally skipping over a perfectly good OS, called Windows 8.1.
Granted, Windows 8 was not all it was cracked up to be. Many problems. Enter the fix....Windows 8.1.

As an Administrator on the OLD Windows 8 forum, I'm very much aware of all the failures expressed by the users of Win-8. But, as a retired Computer Tech, I go all the way back to DOS 2.0, and I remember all the hate and discontent involved with putting a new OS on a computer, when you don't have all the hardware drivers on disks, ready to install.

Windows 7 is famous, for not having a very detailed Driver Package. Like right here on my five year old PC.... when I install any version of Windows 7 on this PC, I have to dig out the drivers disk that came with my Gigabyte Motherboard. And, I have to install the Sound Driver, LAN Driver, and Video driver from that CD, as well as the USB 2.0 drivers.

Now, just for fun, I've installed Windows 8.1 on this machine, using a scratch HD, and I've never had to pull out the Motherboard Drivers disk to load drivers. Windows 8.1 has almost as good of a Driver Pack, as Windows 10. At least for my PC, it's 100% complete.

So, if I'm ever forced to give up Windows 7, and I can't imagine why I'd ever do that, Windows 8.1/Pro/x86 will be running on my PC. With an install of the "Classic Shell", it looks just like Windows 7 and is just as easy to use.*

* A new software group has taken over the continuing development of the "Classic Shell".
It looks like, and runs just like the Original.

Cheers Mates,

 

[RoWin7]

FYI to everyone else: Windows 8.1 Extended Support will end on Jan 10, 2023.

 

[townsbg]

I thought about either going to either 8.1 or 2012 r2 (I have licenses as well as virtual machines for both), but I didn't like my aero customization attempt (I couldn't get it quite right), and really I don't like having to customize it at all. Also I'm not updating 7 now so why switch to 8.1 only to delay the end of support by 3 years for an OS that I'm not updating now. I figure that because of it's popularity 7 will be supported by third party software for quite a while whereas for 8.1 support won't be for as long after the cutoff date. So ultimately I decided that rather than go to 8.1 only to delay going to Linux, that I'll just go to Linux when I have to. If you aren't going to go to 10 why delay the inevitable? Either stay on 7 or switch to Linux or some other Unix derivative. Going to 8.1 will only delay going to either 10 or Linux.

 

[Melchior]

I'm sticking win my Windows 7 BUILD for the foreseeable future....

cannot afford to build a new PC and I don't really like Windows 10.....

 

[TechnoMage2016]

I suppose that if I had to, I could run with Windows 10, Pro, x86 or 64, and I do know how to beat it into submission, and with the added Classic Shell, make it look and act like Windows 7, but I'd just rather NOT.
As it comes from MS, it represents one HUGE security hole.


It takes a lot of work to make 10 approximate 7, which I already have running beautifully on my five year old Home Brew PC.



Cheers Mates!
TM