Your Windows 10 PC will soon be ‘junk’ - users told to resist Microsoft deadline::If you’re still using Windows 10 and don’t want to upgrade to Windows 11 any time soon you might want to sign a new online petition

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    Hell, I’m still running windows 7 on a machine. 10 is my newest and I just installed that a couplemonths ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      192 years ago

      I recently learned there are unpatched vulnerabilities in Paint 3D in versions of Windows 10. Christ knows what they’ve neglected to patch on Windows 7.

      Have you tried a Linux desktop distribution on that windows 7 box? I can’t imagine you’re gaming on it.

    • southsamurai
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      32 years ago

      My music box is win7. Only reason it doesn’t run on a Linux distro is the shitty lack of good audio under the hood of linux, and the annoyances of getting musicbee working right.

      It’s the only thing keeping anything of mine on windows. Wellllll, I did set up my laptop dual boot, and it came with 10 pro, but I haven’t actually booted into that in ages.

      And yes, for whoever is thinking “I hope that win 7 box is air gapped”, it is. Transfers are from an external hdd.

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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        12 years ago

        I’m not an audiophile pro, but Jack and PipeWire were supposed to bring high-quality low-latency audio infrastructure to the Linux desktop, maybe check that out?

        • southsamurai
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          12 years ago

          Yeah, it’s acceptable, but it still suffers in comparison to either the usual options on windows, or even the standard android audio. Can’t touch a solid dedicated DAC, though not much can, in truth.