Should you use Windows 7 or Will you get Hacked? 

Anyone getting the Windows 7 End of Life Nagware yet? And if they are what is the update so I can hide/disable it. Cheers. Good vid btw Chris. I use Win 7 on my business computers and Win10 on my gamers. Also Mint, OSX, Win Server, Chrome OS. :)

Cyba IT MINT yes

Chris, tried emailing you info, but it failed.

@@matthewelerick648 is it a one time only pop up or every startup man?

Cyba IT what no i dont get thAt I’m on windows 10 i use it for gaming

Yep using windows pro 64 bit still best os since xp clean ui ease if use and no bloatware like 10 and dont spy on you .

@@David-uq2uk I use Win7Prox64, and Win8.1Pro, on almost all my computers. I have 2 Win10 computers, with Automatic updates shut off. One hasn't updated for two years, the other hasn't updated for two months.

When will support end? I will be using it way past that. I very much dislike 8 and 10.

me too me two me to me 2

same here.

Adam Sanders 😂😂

PRofFessIONal

Thanks to windows10 i am a professional candy crush player (Meanwhile linux: faster, no candy crush, no worry about virus, play my all windows games too with wine/steam proton)

@@Tofu3435 how about framerate? I see people always complaining about having terrible performance in comparison with say windows 10.

@@franzferdinand2240 Its worse,gaming is the only thing,windows still can count on,but for how long..

Windows 7 I had a hard disk/drive failure. I was forced to get a new one and I was forced to upgrade to windows 10.

@NH' Soria , you mean you are force but you can undo the damage.

I bought a retail version of windows 10. Bye.

I love windows 7

I still love u

howtobebasic1 I’m not even updating then. There is such a big community for windows 7

Saw an older video, Win7 good til 2023 but MS will charge for updates increasing charges every year. But what will for you out is when your browser updates and then tells you Win7 is no longer supported, or that new game you downloaded requires Win10. Or the new 8700k or Ryzen 3000's will force Win10.

That's being too serious. Perhaps in 5-10 years Microsoft will realize its mistakes and improve itself and Windows. You gotta have at least some hope. Of course, I'm not asking you to upgrade now, but when Windows 10 will get 99% polished (it is currently far from it) in the future, you can and probably should.

Keep fighting the good fight sir, my country tried to push us towards windows 10, It starts with the schools removing it then in the shops, friends and then the internet. Once they take your right to install windows 7 away, there's no going back, look what happened to the UK and Win XP declaration of installation, it was all in vain : (

When I'm forced to upgrade, I'm switching to Linux

Win2k was the best Windows for me :)

@Lt Sich Windows 2k was incredible and the last "pure" NT based OS before they merged the home/business sections into one at Microsoft.

Yes, you are absolutely correct. Windows 2k was the last 'pure' NT based windows.

Risat Hamim I liked XP better but I did like 7.

​@@LtSich I only have used XP, 7 and 10. Of these three W7 is the least bad Windows. I have had a few problems with W7: - MS failed to implement auto-hide for the taskbar properly. You always see at least 2 pixels high of the taskbar when it is 'hidden' (also a problem for XFCE but not for KDE!) but worse is that it has a bug for when you use an application fullscreen. Try it out: set the taskbar on autohide, watch RU-vid in fullscreen on W7, press the Windows-button of your keyboard and then press it again. Windows does not resume the application in full-screen. At least for W10 MS solved this bug but they still show 1 or 2 pixels high when you 'hide' the taskbar. Sloppy work! - I had a system-breaking update twice. The same bug. Don't ask me what happened (it might have had to do with dependencies and not careful checking by MS because I only occasionally updated) but this was the bug: after updating and rebooting I couldn't grab any windows or click on any buttons on those windows. When I opened the task manager I could grab a window and press a button again for a short time (once, twice, maybe three times) and then I couldn't any more. Twice! Obviously I had to do a clean install to solve this problem and it made me afraid to update Windows7. I did the first few rounds of updates the first days and then I disabled update out of fear that it would break again. Probably not the best thing but I am a cautious user. Say what you want about Linux, none of the Linux distros which I installed (Mint, Kubuntu, Fedora and Manjaro) crashed like that on my system.

Those two things aside, why stop when the browser will keep working? Also u can always use the leftover features of a (paid) av package.

@ThePatUltra Thanks for the info! I have an old PC I was going to use for classic gaming and stuff. This will help big time.

i did the same thing too xD

Same here, use both XP and 7, but XP laptop is on verge of dying so 7 it is for a long while now

I still use Windows XP all day long. When I develop software I usually do it on a workstation running XP so I can run my old DOS editor and debugger. Windows 7 intentionally can't run DOS programs, unlike all previous versions of Windows. Of course, it is only on the LAN and not the Internet. I use newer versions of Windows when browsing the Internet.

NAX7KP personally, when windows 8.1 came out, it didn’t feel better than windows 7, only windows 10 did, on first impression, feeling more like windows 7

brilliant

Yeah all fun and games until wannacry knocks your door.

@NAX7KP I don't have any issue on my laptop with windows 10(Coffelake)

@NAX7KP What error?

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same

@@Windows-du7id is the best. Still using your OS now.

i will because i love it

​@@duckymonguy2715 they are going to have 1 hell of a time taking windows 7 from me , not only is it running on a server computer which are famously reliable by nature, its running in a virtualbox which is running on linux which is also very reliable so even if they pushed an update on like that last day or something that killed windows 7 , i would just roll back to before the update was installed using virtualbox's snapshot system. there is almost nothing they could do outside of literally coming to my house and taking the entire computer which would not be an easy feet either cause that thing is freak-en heavy.

@@duckymonguy2715 for the sole purpose of screwing up windows 7 of course . if the update contained a timed payload for instance . they could kill windows 7 on exactly the end date of support and thus forcing everyone to move

XP

Yes

@@wakaflockaproject Nope

@Lunar Night no windows 8 is best

XP was

Something important to realize: with W10 the user IS the product. ;)

I actually think when is Vista The last good version of windows

well one thing everyone can agree on is that 8, 8.1, 10 was all horrible. ^^

you dont want anything new until you cant used new tech with the old os. Win 10 is more secure than win 7. as win 7 was more secure than xp. if you dont like the UI thats fine but dont say something is wrong with it because you dont like it. there is one basic way to enhance the security of windows and most users will never implement it , create a basic user account different from the admin account and keep your AV updated and you will be fine. you say useless features, windows was never built for one person alone, what you may consider useless may be a god send feature for someone else. if you dont like window 10 you can switch to linux or mac os, but i guess you will find something to complain about. for all the talk i have seen only seen one major problem with windows 10, and that was not even with windows 10, it with MS policy, where they forced people computers to upgrade without there permission, and some of these computers cant run windows 10 because drivers are not available so the run crappy. people talk about data collection, everyone that is talking has a smart phone, I think MS did a better job that google + cellphone manufacturers and Apple they were up front with what they were collecting, but i guess most people did not read the EULA. there are things about win10 i dont like, there are things about win 7 i dont like, in fact there are things about all OSs i have used that i dont like. But i dont go around bashing it because someone out there likes it and use it, it just not for me. one of by biggest gripes with win 7 is i could not shut it down using windows Key U U, so i created my own script just to do that. its back in windows 10, if you dont like how windows work take a little time and figure out how you can customize it to suite your need and stop the baseless complaining

@@nicholaswjamrock I have used windows my entire life"all of it". I know how to customize windows. Currently running Arch Linux with Xmonad. some bad points about windows. *UI (I know you mentioned it) *message spam from everything(even when turned off) *Updates(I know you also talked about it) *registry, settings, configure panel, power-shell, they don't have one thing to do all the configurations. *bloated system, its very hard to get windows under 35gb in size. *its slow and unresponsive should we continue? this is just a few points that i can think of right now.

why exactly did you revert back after 20 minutes? That hardly seems like enough time to try anything out. I'll admit, at first I was reluctant with Win10. I gave it more than 20 minutes though and there is so much to love about it. I can't comprehend all the complaints. Change is hard sometimes.

Why? because i know what i like and i hate it. BTW i did switch from 7, i'm now on Linux and it took me 5 min to love it.@@Zomp420

@@SuperDd40 Sorry I though maybe you had a reason that would be helpful to other users. You're allowed to like whatever you want. I assumed maybe there was more to it than that. Nonetheless, you are entitled to this opinion and I'm not going to say it's a bad reason. It just doesn't help anyone else decide.

In 2016 i upgraded ti win10 but because of too many updates I cancelled it all... then my pc broke.. I revert back to win 7 the day after

@@UnknownPerson-ul1fn good name i wanna know u now cause of that name

lol

Good for you

Windows 7 I love you ❤️😘💕 windows 7

A very good plan this way I will be prepared for Linux one day

Aye m8, Windows 7 and Linux Mint Mate are the most stables ones.

the most important thing to continue using win 7 without any problems and slowdowns is to turn off your updates for shure from control panel and after that RUN program..see some vids :)

Isaac loved your comment. Made me laugh

I have also several software issues with win 10 on my dell precision 7530. So would you recommend installing win 7 on it? If yes would be great if you could send me some links with information about the installation process

What does sound internet practices mean?

The folder system on Win7 was far superior to Win10's. You could choose to view folders in reverse chronological order, very handy for finding your recent work. With 10 you only have this feature on Downloads. Win 10 also uses drag and drop more than copy or move, annoying when you try to drag to the list of folders and just as you release the target folder jumps several places and you end up trying to figure which folder it actually moved to. Some good features, but outweighed by the annoying new ones. I have never managed to get the Cortana feature working in two years.

Hello

I should keep win 7 ????

Whats telemetry?

@@Ceskyify its data that is collected about your usages of the operating system and programs running on it that is sent to microsoft to "better the product" or so they say.

@Bengt Handlebars they would not be able to improve their services that way LOL mainly because i never use the phone.

They will only support enterprise customers for a fee, no small businesses or home users.

@@Kor1134 True, they did the same thing when offering custom support to enterprise users still on Windows XP past April 2014

imagine paying, someone already made an ESU bypasser

your English is so atrocious, I wonder how you have such a job in the first place..

Aren't you afraid to get hacked?

I've been using Linux since around 1996 or so (RedHat on floppy disk). I still use new distro's and love them. BUT on the other hand because linux wasn't popular when I started developing software I have been stuck in MS stack as far as making money all my life. Use them both :) I have a MacBook Pro too. I use mainly Linux and Windows though, MAC sucks but had to get one to learn on it.

@@Glenrsi You mad bro? You seem triggered...

(but also look into Linux) 😂

only sheep use 10 XD...

Good point Joe! 8.1 isn't bad, but I still have that bad taste in my mouth after dealing with the "Start Screen". Thank goodness for Classic Shell, as it was always the first thing I installed.

I really disliked the UI in Windows 8. I know it improved with 8.1, but it still drove me crazy. I think the Windows 10 UI looks better, but I still dislike the weird tile things and really don’t understand the random install of candy crush and such.

everyone and their mother forgets how bad winXP was before SP2 :P

Indeed! XP was awesome except for it's random BSOD I had, I loved everything else though! But yeah Windows 7 is still the best of all Windows, never crash, runs smoothly, has nice UI, SSD support, compatible with everything, what more can you ask for!

@@They_all_lie DX12? :P

@@sinephase I guess DX12 is a must have for people who wish to play the newest games available but I don't think I'd give up W7 just for that there is only a very few games that I may like in the bunch but even then I don't like what the new developers did to these licenses.

@@They_all_lie me too, and from what I've read, Vulkan is a better API.

TheRosswise For general users with general hardware, Linux Mint is a fantastic choice. I always recommend Mint over Ubuntu.

I would recommend any distro with KDE but preferably a distro in which you can easily avoid Snap because Snap still doesn't work properly. Long loading times for many programs. Many users have complained about it and on my computer I experienced it myself.

Peter Jansen Good point regarding snaps! I don’t use them, so I forget about mentioning them to new Linux users. Thanks for the reminder.

​@@mitchelvalentino1569 I am rather picky with my software and I don't like installing it from Github (simply becauase it takes too much time) so I prefer well filled repositories. For example, the Ubuntu repository also doesn't have Notepadqq (a clone of Notepad++ which probably is the most popular text editor on Windows) which in my opinion should be in any repository. Arch does have it in the repository but Arch has other issues for new users.

I've tried linux before and liked it (felt smoother than windows), just never got around to learning how to do everything with the terminal so I basically didn't know how to do shit without constant googling lol.

You are right. Though Wine is a double edged sword. Once the userbase is big enough, we should demand native ports for anything and not support rejection without good reason. Though for now I am just happy that I can play most of my games without booting up Windows in some way or becoming a console peasant (which though is impossible for Windows-exclusive titles). ReactOS always seemed like a really nice project to me, but it turns out recreating Windows or rather getting binary compatible with a rather small team on the basis of some donations takes a lot of time. Or is AAA gaming on ReactOS a thing already?

3rd party management systems like CC Cleaner will help you disable start up items you don't really need.

I have a 12-year old ThinkPad laptop, and I got it running more-or-less OK with Linux Mint 19.1 MATE. Not fast, but somewhat tolerable. Why not XFCE? Because I don't like it. Period. Why not Cinnamon? It needs a little more power than this old relic can give, and it would be too slow for my tastes.

Windows 10 sucks...

I think the pro edition doesn't

XP is excellent as well, common sense is an antivirus that won't have an end of support

16.04 is ancient. I highly recommend you try out newer versions of Ubuntu, or whatever other distro (OS) you might want to. Just check that you've downloaded one of the two latest versions of Ubuntu if that's what you're sticking to - 18.04 LTS and 19.04.

Try elementary OS

You should check out Linux Mint, quite stable and appropriate for casual users switching from Windows.

yeah he totally missed 8.1 - im building new computers with win 8.1 pro and they fly. good until 2024, fuck win10. by the time 8.1 expires, then lets see what linux is like or even maybe a ReactOS version of Windows 7 hellz ya

Make sure to Qualify the needs and that the company doesn't have any Legacy Windows dependencies that need to be met. If not, its simple, Do you want to spend $200 x # of PCs or Free Linux. So 100 employee business would save around $20,000 in migration costs, however there is still the learning expenses and productivity loss you will incur while you switch. It really just depends on what you all do.

@@ChrisTitusTech Thanks!! I am afraid there will be quite some dependencies... we do engineering, so there is for example Solidworks and the models need to be imported in e.g. Ansys... In the end it is a mindset and looking into the future. The more you delay, the more expensive it may become. I guess I should start my own company, I found there are some free engineering software packages out there for CAD, FEM, CFD etc Myself I use Matlab, but would like to make the switch to Python when have the time to learn it!

I use AVAST * NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH XP OR WIN 7 *DR KEL

You will have to do some messing around to get usbs working with wib7 on the 3000 ryzen chips

Actually liked Windows Vista and 7 myself.

For me too close to call between Windows Vista and Windows 7.

I liked Vista a lot more than 7. But I used Vista on hardware made for it, most people used XP-era machines and “Vista-capable” hardware which wasn’t good enough for Vista to properly run.

That was about 15 minutes into boot! This is also after I removed Telemetry and slimmed it down. Windows 10 is scary.

@@ChrisTitusTech But it comes back every reboot, BTW I'm using AntiBeacon. I'd wish to install Windows 7 again because the data usage on Windows 10 is as high as spit.

@@ChrisTitusTech Ikr.

This is like a reboot of Windows Vista

Fun fact - you can disable updates for Win10 and 11 for a period of time. Even more fun fact - at least on Win10 (haven't tried it with Win11), when the time comes for the computer to update again, you can take the computer offline, have it scan for updates again (while offline), and then pause updates again when it's done. When you go back online, boom, no updates. It's a pain in the butt to remember, but it works!

You might be able to stop updates..I recommend doing some more research online to see what other people have done.

@@erichaynes7502 well: thank You very Much Best Regards

KDE is nice, but I prefer GNOME 3 I just like the work flow better on GNOME I know it uses a little more memory but of my 3 different computers the lowest amount of RAM I have is 16GB so it's nothing. I'm not hating on KDE, it's a good environment, I just prefer GNOME.

try KDE. youll love DOLPHIN and KDIALOG youll need to enable it for firefox, but thats easy www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/a5cxwk/firefox_v64_can_now_use_the_kde_file_selection/ the only things i miss is RECENT PLACES and for some reason the drop down menu with the path doesnt show me the most visited folders

@@nickymlak1189 You don't think I have tried KDE? That's funny, I've tried every desktop and I prefer Gnome. I think I'll stay with it thank you

@@mrmasterofdiabloplay Agreed, we should definitely use whatever workflow is best for productivity and it's entirely subjective. Being a relatively recent Windows convert I used to use Cinnamon, then a heavily customized XFCE and now Plasma all while keeping things relatively similar to Windows, workflow-wise. I might be more productive if I change things around but it involves a learning curve that I don't want to undertake right now. Glad to have so much choice though!

@@Ronit_Ray Be glad you are not considering the i3 desktop, that one is fun but can be a pain in the ass to setup LOL

Agreed ;) I purposefully went out of my way to try and do anything and everything just get experience with it. Learn from my mistakes.

Andrew I have Alienware windows 7 works very nice

ASARADEL Who cares