Is anyone still using Windows 7?

[ShadouFox]

In reply to dg1261:

Thanks very much. I'm OK for now. I have three sites, they all work.

If it gets to the point where 7 does not work, I'll do Linux, period, and I don't like Linux because it has all kinds of flaws which are probably welcomed by people with PhD's in Digital Magic, but for normal people, it's a minefield. It's like having to learn DOS, in German. I'm happy to read this forum, with all its valuable information.

K\ve used a lot of Linuxes over the years: Mandrake, Gentoo, CRUX, Redhat, Debian, Puppy, Evil Entity, Zenwalk. I'll not try to lid you into believing Linux is perfect. It isn't. My advise is to avoid Debian and its derivatives (i.e. N00buntu) like the plague. The repositories are lousy with broken packages. This is why I've been using Slackware ever since Ought Six or so. You can get Slackpacks for installation, or download the programs in *.rpm format and convert to *.tgz package with rpm2tgz, then install as usual.

That's what I used to install Enlightenment on Slackware 15.0 and it worked just fine, and Enlightenment is a big program with ESSSSS-loads of dependencies. (I've installed from source and it ain't no fun) You can also install from source "tarballs". I've seen a very few that didn't compile. (dvdauthor was one due to a missing #iclude that led to undefined variables. An easy fix.)

Slackware is a bit geekier than usual: the installer is an Ncurses menu driven program, but not at all difficult to navigate. It's not as geeky as it used to be, and I haven\t had to hack config files in 15 years. Everything just works: the X display and networking are all set up for you and just work out of the box.

 

[watchingbones]

I have a laptop with windows 7 on it and some VMs, i use them for Roxio creator 2011 and 2012, because when i install them on windows 10 it wont boot. I browse the Net with snipe browser and edit my subtitles with snipe office. As its the most up to date i can get on 7. Its not my primary machine obviously. I use roxio for Disc authoring AVCHD which isn't available in more modern versions. Honestly the VM absolutely sucks for authoring, but it works in a pinch, i prefer the laptop even if it was a 2009 model.

 

[spapakons]

If you create an AVCHD compliant video file, you can use MultiAVCHD to create an AVCHD folder without re-encoding. Or you can create an ISO instead and burn it with ISOBURN. The file can be AVI or MP4 or MKV containing AVC video and AC3 or MPEG or PCM audio. I use MultiAVCHD in Windows 11 without issues. I use AVCHD Calculator to find the appropriate bitrate to fit the disc.